Having identified her husband's body in the morgue, Kopylov's wife proceeds to formalize the inheritance. However, police officers manage to establish that she perjured herself in order to enter into inheritance rights, without waiting for the real Kopylov to be found.

While campaigning, the image maker of the candidate for the Duma, Alla Gordentseva, decided to attract the attention of the press to his ward. However, he did not expect that the story with Gordentsova's husband's mistress could end in tragedy.