Vasilisa Kolycheva believes her admission to the elite Academy of Arts is a ticket to a beautiful life.
However, the illusion dissipates when, after six months of study, she discovers the corpse of her close friend Sonia Vasilevskaya, who has hanged herself on campus.
Vasilisa is convinced that class president Igor Dubovitsky is involved in Sonia's death, as she had a strange secret relationship with him.
There are rumors that Igor drove the girl to suicide. However, the investigator Sergei Morozov, who arrives at the campus, suspects that what happened is nothing less than murder.
During the interrogations, he realizes that the students are not ready to reveal the whole truth to him, and his opponent is the mysterious elite of the Academy, which will go to great lengths to hide its crimes.