Svitlana Ihoreva, an investigator of the capital's prosecutor's office on particularly important cases, is accustomed to the difficulties of the profession: to terrible pictures at the crime scene, communication with a specific contingent, and so on. Only because of work she has no time for family and personal life. Svetlana has a difficult relationship with her teenage son, because she is rarely at home. The ex-husband also rarely spends time with the child, limited to alimony. But when it turns out that her mother is seriously ill, the main character abandons everything and goes to her village: for this she had to quarrel with her boss and resign.

However, in her native village Svetlana will also have to apply professional skills. She cannot stay away from the investigation into the murder of her schoolboy. And in the rural community, where, it would seem, everything is in the palm of your hand, secret passions are boiling. The former metropolitan investigator has to establish relations with local colleagues, with his own son, and with fellow villagers ...