About the book: 2024 / Lada has already cursed herself a hundred times for her helpfulness: why did she tell her friend Rina that the apartment next door to her own was for rent? Rina’s brother Stas immediately rented the apartment and began annoyingly caring for Lada. Not wanting to spend the evening with him at all, she went to her mother, and Stas died in her absence after drinking poisoned wine. In fact, he preferred stronger drinks, so who was the wine intended for - maybe Lada herself? Or did Stas, who was a journalist, suffer because of his investigation? Lada and other acquaintances of Stas, willy-nilly drawn into this story, are trying to clarify the circumstances of the journalist’s death - and, without realizing it, they are at mortal risk…