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Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavski, seeking inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city's underworld. He turns for help to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, the acknowledged expert on Moscow's slums. Together they head to the legendary criminal district of Khitrovka and become drawn into investigating the murder of a mysterious local resident — an Indian Sikh with a dark past.