After a poor college student and her lover are murdered, Jana Matinova struggles to find a connection in the brutality with the help of a retired magician who is also invested in the case.
Jana and Sofia were best friends as schoolmates in communist Czechoslovakia. Jana, a judge's daughter, was prudent; Sofia, impetuous. Now Jana, who entered the Czechoslovak police force, has risen to
Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect
