Anna Vorontsova, or, as her colleagues in the investigative committee called her, the Crow, has been refusing for three weeks to open a case on the disappearance of a famous Bohemian photographer. By a fateful coincidence, this man dies. Now, tormented by the pangs of conscience, the heroine sets her task to sort out this case at all costs.
Former boxer Egor Tarantsev arrives in his native seaside town for his mother's funeral. Twenty years ago, he left for competitions and never returned to these parts. His career took off, he turned professional from amateurs, fought for the championship title in Las Vegas, everything was going well in the ring, until one day the doctors gave Egor a verdict - if he did not stop, the consequences could be irreparable, from stroke to death.
The main character of the story is veteran officer Mikhail Samylov who loses his friend Igor Makarov in Syria. Mikhail comes back to his port hometown Yantarsk to help Makarov’s widowed wife. He blames Igor’s death on himself. He doesn’t know, though, that Makarov is actually alive and turns out not who he seemed to be. A small port town becomes a battlefield of life and death. A chain of crimes always leads to one man — owner of the port Kupriyanov. Lost at what to do with his life, Mikhail, tormented by the pangs of guilt, will have to solve the crimes and find a new reason to keep on living.