Vladimir Zalygin

A crime has been committed. The worst thing is murder... Who is the culprit? What are the motives for the crime? These and many related questions face police colonel Drobyshev and senior lieutenant Samarin. During the investigation, they encounter young people whose spiritual poverty is terrible in its moral consequences.

Jack Vosmyorkin, young American with Russian origins decides to return to Russia in order to watch October Revolution in action.

Based on a story by Nikolai Berezovsky, using fragments from O. Henry's short story "Peaches."