Pale fair skin, fiery red long hair, a beautiful evening dress and terrible bruises all over her body - this is how the famous poetess Lyubov Gorokhova was seen by the police officers who arrived at the crime scene... She wrote about love and the meaning of life, about the purpose of the poet and poetry - and she was brutally murdered in a filthy, dirty basement of a residential building. And a little later, two more corpses are discovered in Lyubov’s apartment: her friend-philanthropist, who helped publish, Severtsev, and his old friend, the poet Meshchersky. It seems that someone set out to kill the most talented writers in the city! But in this investigation, poetry and rhyme are intertwined with huge sums of money missing from illegal drug lords. Lawyer Lisa Travina and her permanent assistant Glafira are looking for bloody millions and those who could shed light on this literary mystery...