After the defeat of the White movement, aristocrats who fled from the Red Terror, military officers who survived the flames of war, fanatical monarchists and liberal politicians, adventurers of all stripes and ordinary criminals gathered here. The fate of Boris Ordyntsev, who miraculously survived, brought him here. And here he again meets Colonel Goretsky , who turns to him for help: at the request of the Turkish police, he must investigate a series of murders among the Russian emigration. What do those killed - a colonel of the White Army, a poor prostitute, an old moneylender, a black market businessman - have in common? The answer to this question must be given as quickly as possible, because every day brings new victims and danger threatens Boris himself...