General Zubov in the spring of 1945 in Germany accidentally found a bag full of jewelry. As a result of a sudden attack, his driver Grigory Zhilin was killed. Not far from the general, the patrol ceases to accompany the former prisoners of war. Zubov realizes that there is a woman among them, and decides to take pity on her and take her as a housekeeper in his family. Now Galina is helping the general's wife to manage the household and raise her little daughter Katya. But after a while General Zubov and his wife were found murdered in their own apartment...