According to Tatiana Ustinova's novel of the same name.

A year ago, Kira Yatt (woman journalist, smart woman and beauty) divorced her husband, having lived with him for fifteen years. Their son, Tim, dreams of reconciling his parents, but they are not something to reconcile – they do not want to see each other. It is understandable: any meeting, any telephone conversation of a former Lodraz couple grows into a quarrel – too many mutual images and claims have accumulated in them during the years of living together ... So they would have lived each in their own, if not tragic Case: Kyrgyz chief, editor of the weekly "The Old Square" Konstantin Averin was killed. He was shot dead as he walked to Kira to discuss something very important with her. They shot at Kira's porch, almost at the apartment door. And police suspect Kira's murder. “You have no alibi, Kira Mikhailovna,” investigator Andrei Galtsev tells her. "And the opportunity to commit a crime was just ...".