Vera Semenova is very beautiful. No man can pass by indifferently. Vera knows how to effectively present herself, highlighting her best. She wants to find the one who will provide her with a beautiful life and protection. And she found the one she was looking for. It all ends in a second with someone splashing acid in her face. Vera woke up in a hospital bed. Her face was disfigured. Vera thinks about suicide, starts talking to a therapist. Vera lives through all the stages of accepting the inevitable: denial, anger, bargaining, depression. Now she has two goals - to achieve everything in life herself and to find the one who splashed acid in her face. Unexpectedly, she meets Nikita, whose fate is somewhat similar to hers.
In the small town of Gorovets in the Pskov region, located 30 km from the border with Latvia, an emergency occurred - half of the local police department's management was arrested. And this happened because of the largest legal business in the city - a cement plant: it was flourishing, turnover was growing, thus the enterprise became a tasty morsel for everyone, and the fight for it reached the federal level. As a result, Moscow operatives have to restore order in the city and head the local police department: Major Sergey Malakhov becomes the head of the department, and captains Vadim Gruzdev and Ivan Shadrin head the criminal investigation department.
The year is 1967. A series of mysterious murders of women are taking place in Leningrad. An experienced KGB major, Chuzhbin, and a police captain, Fedorov, are assigned to catch a maniac who leaves mysterious signs next to the victims.
