Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”