When she calls herself a criminal journalist, no one knows it sounds ambiguous. Yes, she is a well-known journalist and is investigating murders and disappearances. But in her past - and it seems to her that only she knows - there is a terrible crime.

Halyna, who is about thirty-five years old, comes to her hometown with her daughter Dasha, a first-year student at the Faculty of Journalism, after many years of absence. She got a job in one of the central newspapers, where she writes a section of the criminal chronicle. Again and again Galina is involved in the investigation of disappearances and murders. In each such case - human dramas, someone's broken destinies. And each such investigation is a duel with a murderer, from which she emerges victorious through her experience, knowledge and instinct.

But from the moment of returning to her hometown, Galina is the object of close attention of the unknown, who follows her every step. Ominous messages, phone calls that Galina receives, hint at something that happened in the distant past.