Yulia suspects that her husband is deceiving her: firstly, he is dating a beautiful neighbor, and secondly, he is secretly siphoning money from the common business. Julia invites a financial analyst to sort out this delicate situation. The analyst comes to the couple's country cottage for the weekend to work with documents, and confirms her assumption: Vlad really took several million out of business. And that same night, Julia disappears without a trace. Private detective Ilya Shatalov, who has taken up her search, gradually understands: the problems of this strange family began much earlier... Alla Kholod is a professional journalist. The dramatic stories underlying the plots of her books are fictional, but far from fantastic. They are about people living in modern Russia, neither good nor bad - complex, torn by passions, sometimes helpless in the face of circumstances and twists of fate, but invariably bright and strong personalities.