In the publishing house, where the strange and unsociable Aleks Shan-Giray gets a job, something sinister is happening: anonymous letters, threats are coming, attempts are being made. And the staff of the publishing house themselves behave very suspiciously. And then one day the corpse of an unknown man is found in the corridor... It is Aleks who will have to solve this crime, as well as figure out himself and his past.