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A maverick police investigator is suspended from service amid a major crisis involving severed female body parts in multiple locations in the woods near St. Petersburg.

As a result of another outrage by fans of the England national team, which escalated into multi-day clashes, the leadership of European football disqualifies the English from the European Football Cup. Instead, the Russian team enters the final stage. The Russian Football Federation has only two weeks to assemble a team. Head coach Sorokin and his assistant Mikhalych invite to the team the football players who have today become "downed pilots": forwards Matveev and Sanaev are under investigation for a fight, defender Bushagov, after a loud scandal, is divorcing his wife, who demands huge alimony, young forward Kizyakov because of of his character sits on a bench and so on. They all lost the opportunity to play, earn big money, be idols and real stars. But Sorokin's plan - to give them a chance to return to their former life - does not work: the new team cannot work together, each player pursues his own goals, and therefore they do not form a team.

Housing lawyer Rita Galich works at a social center. One day, she receives news that her father, a respected lawyer and university professor, Evgeniy Vladimirovich, is accused of murdering his graduate student. Evgeniy Vladimirovich's guilt is obvious to everyone, he was detained at the crime scene, his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon and on the victim's body. But Rita does not believe that her father is involved in what happened, and decides to get to the bottom of the truth on her own.