About the book: 2004 / No one will be surprised by a noisy showdown in a Moscow restaurant. Student Alisa Fomina was not surprised by the shooting in the establishment where she worked as a waitress. But imagine her amazement when she found a case in her hands containing... almost half a million dollars and some kind of video cassette! This goodness is now entirely hers, Alice is sure. But friend Nadezhda Botkina thinks differently - we must immediately hand over the illegally appropriated property to the police. Alice with the money rushes out of Moscow towards happiness, and a hunt begins for Nadya, because some criminals really need this money. What should an honest girl do - “turn in” her friend or continue to shield her? While Nadya, this young genius of mathematical sciences, has a difficult task - to survive herself, to save her friend, and to restore justice…