A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person undertakes to help the investigator...
as Ilya Ilyich Muromtsev
as Varvara Petrovna, Ilya's aunt
as Pyotr Prokofievich Konev, investigator
as Platon Sergeevich Bryzgalin, a degraded writer
as Marina Klimova, limit officer
as Ravil, sexot
as Dmitry Teterev
as Vladislav Igorevich Teterev, professor's son, Marina's fiancé
as Matvei Ivanovich Bryukhanov