Vera is an excellent surgeon with a difficult personality and a host of personal problems. Her husband has left, her daughter is growing distant, and who could find it easy to be around a reserved, demanding perfectionist? Yet this strictness does not prevent her from breaking the law herself when it comes to the condition of her underage patient, Zoya. Taking a risk, Vera helps the girl obtain painkillers after surgery. Some time later, Zoya dies under mysterious circumstances. An investigation begins, the prescription story comes to light, and Vera goes on trial. The only way to avoid prison—and not leave her profession entirely—is to cooperate with the prosecutor's office as a forensic medical examiner. Vera's partner and supervisor becomes investigator Pakhomov, who is assigned to keep an eye on the convicted woman. And he himself, it seems, can no longer take his eyes off her.
