About the book: year / An elderly woman gets her granddaughter a job through an old friend. She comes to the personnel department to find out why her granddaughter was refused, and in the person of the deputy director of personnel she recognizes the son of a kulak, who was a policeman during the occupation. Now this is a retired colonel and a deputy of the city council... The old woman writes a statement to the prosecutor's office. Prosecutor's office investigator Mikhail Grechka begins an investigation into the events of 1941-42. During the investigation, it turns out that at the same time, the police of the same village arrested and later executed a famous steelworker, a participant in the Stakhanov movement, for refusing to cooperate with the Germans. Mikhail managed to find witnesses, documents and restore the true picture of the events of fifty years ago.