A stunning story about how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to do to keep their positions. The year 1966. The killer chose the black piano lid, gleaming with asphalt lacquer, as a base. He arranged thirteen saucers on it, and on them — burning candles. He carefully examined the couch where the dead man lay, removed empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. The last touch remained, the cherry on the cake... The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in block letters on the singer's chest. Half a century later, this case fascinated a young journalist, Petr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those distant events and capable of uncovering the dark secrets of the past...