The Picturesque Corpse

An elderly woman dies after falling from a marble staircase in the park. It seems to be just a mundane story for the crime news… No one suspects that this death will disturb the fragile balance of relationships in the family of retired General Afanasy Arkadievich Abramov. His relatives are just waiting for the opportunity to divide the million-dollar inheritance of the elderly invalid…
Only Zhanna, the general's niece, does not intend to claim an easy fortune at someone else's expense. In search of a job, the girl meets a famous lawyer, Platon Smorodina, and introduces him to her uncle. From the very first glance, Smorodina understands that trouble is brewing in the Abramov household. And the supposedly accidental incident in the park is the key to unraveling a terrible secret of the general's family…