So, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire finally got to the Hotel Denouement, where the final meeting of V.F.D. is to take place on Thursday. And although the mysterious taxi driver is sure that the children can distinguish a volunteer from a scoundrel at first glance, they themselves The Baudelaires are not sure about this, because they not only have to figure out who they are talking to - the volunteer Frank or his treacherous twin brother Ernest, but also suspect that two twins cannot be in three places at the same time. In the days remaining before the fateful Thursday, the Baudelaires will appear before the Supreme Court on charges of murder, commit several acts unexpected for the volunteers, and finally rush away at the behest of the waves. And at the same time, the Baudelaires begin to doubt whether they came out of the penultimate scrape as the last scoundrels, although they had the best intentions... The end is near!