Famous musician Nikita Prozorov is kidnapped in a house in the center of Moscow. Investigator Ivanov finds out that the abduction was staged, and Nikita's mother, Renata, a well-known TV producer, is involved in this. Only one thing is known for sure that Nikita was taken to the clinic in an unconscious state for experimental treatment on computer psychocorrection of personality. To understand the reasons and deep motives of Renata's act, the investigator will have to piece together the history of the complex relationship between mother and son and answer the main question: did Renata kill her son or save his life?
Vadik, a young opera singer from Moscow, is being transferred to St. Petersburg because his fiancee lives here. As a mentor, Vadik receives a senior operative, Captain Gosha Kolpakov, a psychotic suicidal and misanthropic man living the darkest moment of his life. Two partners travel around St. Petersburg near Bulanov and investigate the case of the disappearance of the corpses of young girls from morgues.
The action takes place from April to December 1986. The Ukrainian department of the KGB of the USSR becomes aware of the interest shown by foreign intelligence services in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To establish the whereabouts of an experienced CIA officer, Albert Lenz, who is suspected of espionage, on the territory of Pripyat, Lieutenant Colonel of military counterintelligence Andrey Nikolaev arrives in the city.
Irina Vladimirovna seems to dote on her son and Wife, but her guardianship is suffocatingly excessive: the relationship is so strained that she has to visit a family psychologist. At one of the receptions, the specialist suggests that the woman begin the separation process with the child. Irina Vladimirovna just has a second apartment, which is now rented to tourists, where Zhenya could move, and there, you see, some kind of social life will be adjusted, since one of the two rooms will still be put up for daily rent. In a new place, Zhenya immediately meets a neighbor girl, Dasha.