He leads a strange life and doesn't seem to be too happy with it. He has a strange profession, strange habits, even a strange name - Alex Shan-Girey!.. The publishing house where Alex was invited to work, at first glance, seems quite peaceful, cozy and prosperous. Everyone loves each other and is busy with a noble cause - publishing books. Everything will go to pieces on the very day when a corpse is discovered in the corridor of the publishing house... Writer Alex Shan-Girey decides that he must regain himself again and find freedom. And therefore he breaks up with Manya Polivanova, the woman of his life, and part-time author of popular detective stories. And Manya absolutely cannot stand lies and human torment. And if for some reason Alex decided to “free himself” - please! She needs to save Vladimir Beregovoy, the head of the IT department of the Alphabet publishing house, who finds himself in an almost mystical story with a missing corpse...In the entrance of the house where the author of detective novels Manya Polivanova lives, her old friend was killed, who had come in for a “glass of tea” the day before and conversations about the eternal. The money and valuables remained with him, and he himself was neither a criminal authority, nor a great politician, nor a rich man! So why was he killed? Alex Shan-Girey, Polivanova’s lover and part-time genius of world literature, may not look like a “real hero.” He is absent-minded and loves to delve into himself. However, he knows for sure: it will be up to him to sort out the next incident that his girlfriend got into...