An unknown person approaches a Moscow antique dealer with a request to evaluate a figurine of a poodle by Carl Faberge... Then the same guy in Paris clarifies the possibility of selling a collection of ten Faberge dogs. Having received this information, the detective agency "Sova" begins an investigation... It turns out that among antique dealers there is a legend about the merchant Sobakin, who before the revolution annually ordered jewelry figurines of dogs from Faberge for his bride... No one saw the collection, and after the Great October Revolution its traces were completely lost. “Owl” finds out that the merchant’s son, academician Trofim Sobakin, recently died. And during the reading of the will, it turned out that the old family nest of the Sobakins - a house in Malakhovka - went to the doctor Galina...