Senior police lieutenant Ignat Zhukov came to his native village on the Black Sea coast to stay with his aunt. Here he met his childhood friend Leah and fell in love with her. While celebrating his arrival at a restaurant, Ignat got into a fight with local criminals, for which he spent the night in the bullpen. And when he came out, he discovered that his aunt and her partner had been brutally stabbed to death. Suspicion fell on one of the relatives, whose corpse was soon found in one of the coastal caves. A little later, a new terrible death shocked the village... Both the police and the population are sure that Ignat is the killer. The slandered elder has no choice but to begin an independent investigation of these terrible crimes...