The young and talented photographer Maxim Kaverin has a good life: an interesting work, the beautiful wife Olga. Suddenly he receives an order for a series of shots of one of the old houses of the city. The hero goes to take pictures and does not suspect what tragedy is going towards.

Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.

The story is about why people's destinies are intertwined, how they influence each other and how this changes the world around us.