1947 Hunger and devastation reign in the war-drained country. Bread is worth its weight in gold, and the cost of human life is zero. Cities are controlled by criminal gangs: like black cats, they come undetected under the cover of darkness and easily disappear from the crime scene. A gang operating in Rostov-on-Don is robbing a food warehouse, but OBB Major Yegor Dragun suspects that this is not the work of ordinary criminals..

Victoria Chernova lives up to a certain point, as befits a beautiful bird in a golden cage – without thinking much about anything. She has an exemplary husband and child, a beautiful and rich house, cheerful and successful girlfriends. And there is not a single wrinkle on the forehead, because all the problems have been solved for years to come. But suddenly it turns out that fate gave her all this once in advance. Moreover, now Victoria must repay this debt: so, one evening her husband unexpectedly announces that he has found another... That same evening, Vika is forced to start a new life: without money, with a child and a small suitcase of things, she moves to live with her son's nanny. And now she needs to earn at least some food somehow… Victoria is forced to get a job in an ordinary supermarket. Unexpectedly for herself, she will suddenly make a career in it. And he learns the real price of everything and everything: money, meanness, and love.

Evgenia Kolesnikova, a correspondent for a private newspaper, receives a prestigious journalistic award - the Silver Pen - for a series of revealing articles about fraud with Moscow real estate. One of the defendants in the real estate case, official Vitaly Martov, throws himself out of the window of his apartment. On the same day, police officers Nazarov and Artemyev find a notebook with a list of his future victims in the dead professional killer Borisenko. Evgenia Kolesnikova is on the list.