Anna Vorontsova, or, as her colleagues in the investigative committee called her, the Crow, has been refusing for three weeks to open a case on the disappearance of a famous Bohemian photographer. By a fateful coincidence, this man dies. Now, tormented by the pangs of conscience, the heroine sets her task to sort out this case at all costs.

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

Boris is called up for military service in a "hot spot". His bride Larissa, soon receives a letter stating that he was missing. A friend of Boris Nikolai, who was secretly in love with Larissa begins aggressively courting her and finally makes a proposal. The girl is forced to accept it. On the eve of her wedding Boris unexpectedly returns. Their feelings for each other are still there, but the young man disappears again ...

Igor Lebedev is the finance director of large corporation. He commits murder of the accountant who knew about his dirty frauds and tried to restore justice.