Having come back home, Andrey Danilov finds the wife dead. His friend - violinist Tarasov provides to him an alibi and rescues Andrey from prison. However two years later the tragical history again reminds of itself: first Danilov receives a wedding photo of wife Nonny with an inscription " Danilov - the murderer ", then finds out about pogrom in the country house where drawings of his new project are destroyed...