After the death of her husband, Margarita Parovaya begins to live on a grand scale, not denying herself anything. Her main goal is to fulfill the dream of her youth and become an actress. But soon the bright horizons of future popularity are darkened by an unexpectedly revealed fact. It turns out that her husband did not die a natural death, but was poisoned, and the widow, who had gone into isolation, becomes the main suspect.

Immediately after the death of the father, between the children - Alla and Yevgeny Kostetsky - there are insoluble disputes over the burial of the body. Eugene insists on a traditional funeral, Alla insists on freezing the body in liquid nitrogen. Passions were not destined to boil for long: soon Alla was found dead.

An ophthalmologist, secretly suffering from schizophrenia and following his own theory of treating the disease, conducts experimental operations on mentally ill patients. He kills a psychiatrist, whose unexpected intervention could reveal his secret.