1945. After demobilization, the former reconnaissance commander Major Alexander Vasilkov returns to Moscow. Here he meets his deputy captain Startsev. Commissioned after being wounded, he has been working as a senior investigator at the MUR for two years. Startsev calls the commander to serve in the Criminal Investigation Department. There are not enough people, and the criminal situation in the capital is akin to a front-line one. The other day, for example, under the reparation program, Priam's Treasure arrives from Germany to the USSR - nine thousand objects found by Heinrich Schliemann during the excavation of Troy. Criminals will probably try to profit...