Lawyer. Judge Fate separated Sergei Chelishchev from his school friends Oleg and Katya for a long time. They could not even imagine what circumstances would bring them together again. Now Oleg is the leader of a criminal group, Katerina is his wife and assistant, Sergei is a lawyer. But, having met his childhood friends, Chelishchev begins to suspect that they are involved in the recent murder of his parents... Chelishchev collects a dossier on Oleg’s group and hands it over to the journalist Obnorsky... Having become a journalist, Andrei Obnorsky receives information from a man dying in a prison hospital that one of the paintings in the Hermitage was once replaced by him with a copy. No one knows about this substitution, and no one knows where the original is. Andrei Obnorsky undertakes his own, deadly investigation...