About the book: 2007 / A series is being filmed in a provincial town. Suddenly, the body of an unknown person is discovered on the set, and the director of a small-town television saga disappears without a trace. The police cheerfully get down to business. And he quickly discovers criminal traces: illegal drug trafficking, gang warfare, left-wing companies, tax evasion. But all this does not explain at all where the director went. In order to understand the intricate relationships between people of art, you need a person with flexible and unconventional thinking, and there is such a person in the city. This is a former investigator, and currently a modest furniture restorer at a local art museum, Nikolai Samovarov..