Far from the city, journalist Aristarkh Rusakov discovered the body of a man. The driver of the real estate company, Vasily Levakov, was killed. The journalist tried to talk to an important witness, the girlfriend of the murdered man, but, as it turned out, the girl died a couple of days ago under strange circumstances. Then Rusakov went to the hunting ground, where he often came with the company of Leftists. And here one strange fact surfaced: shortly before the murder, an avid hunter Vostrikov disappeared without a trace. He disappeared in the dead of night, in the best place for ambushing wild boars, called the Afonka channel...