Serezhkin's service in the new district began in exceptional and dramatic circumstances. A zoologist who studied artiodactyls was killed on the stone shore of the Bald Spit. There's only one piece of evidence at the crime scene- a size 37 footprint. There may be a woman involved...

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.