A young painter Sasha is dreaming to become an actress...

Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.

Private detective Sam Patrick (alias for Lew Archer) investigates the mystery of disappeared jewel-box in house of Garry Shtemmer. Trail of murders makes this case more and more embarrassed. Based on the novel "The Goodbye Look" by Ross Macdonald.