Gorlov is a dead end. Dashkova P.V.

He lost everything: officer rank, high position, salary, separate apartment. The case that he led fell apart. The defendants are released and declared innocent. But he is not going to give up. He retained faith in himself and his special mission. He begins his life again, builds a brilliant career, is overgrown with influential acquaintances. He will prove the existence of an enemy conspiracy and the guilt of former defendants. No one knows about his secret plans. No one tries to interfere with him. No one, except for a nineteen -year -old girl, is orphans from a dirty communal apartment to a throat dead end. But she has not been in the world for a long time. She is only a ghost that is a sleepless night to him.

the action of the novel covers a quarter of a century - from 1952 to 1977. The plot is based on real events.