The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin.

Based on the fairy tales by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

An unusual story that happened a long time ago in the city of Eulenberg, in a house where a terrible Ghost lived...

This case has been under investigation for five years, it has gone through all the courts, and there are so many papers in this case that they are "carried from one court to another on a cart." The case is known as the Muromsky case. The investigation is being conducted against Lidochka. She is suspected of knowing about Krechinsky's intention to rob Muromsky, of assisting him in this, and of providing this criminal assistance because she was having an illicit love affair with him.