Alexei Rozenberg

A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.

Police captain Adil Akhtanov, nicknamed the Tick, is suspected of murder — these are the evidence and testimony of the defendant in the next case, which was led by the captain. Nevertheless, Akhtanov's immediate boss instructs him to conduct an unofficial investigation into the death of traffic police officers. Tick takes up a new case — and very soon passes sentence to his boss, the head of the mafia...

Late USSR, Almaty, polygamy, freedom and conventionality of life