You can't trust your own memory. You can't trust the words of others. But how can you find out what really happened on that fateful night? On a rainy evening in New York, psychologist James Cobb gives a lecture on restoring lost memories under hypnosis. After the lecture, he is approached by a stranger who woke up in a hotel room forty years ago, found the mutilated corpse of a woman in the bathroom - and could not remember what happened the day before. Now he is terminally ill, and it is extremely important for him to find out before his death who he is - a murderer or an innocent person who accidentally found himself at the crime scene. Intrigued, James begins to unravel a tangle of old secrets. But each witness presents his own version, each revealed fact suggests a new interpretation of events. It looks like someone tried very hard to ensure that the truth remained buried forever. For the first time in Russian!