Summary
In a city of gaslit corridors and ink-stained ledgers, the public prosecutor’s daughter—part porcelain, part powder-keg—waltzes through ballrooms where every waltz is a potential indictment. Her father, a juridical colossus who signs death warrants before breakfast, believes law to be a cathedral; she discovers it is a catacomb. Enter a pennubile actress whose laughter splinters like crystal hurled onto cobblestones, a magistrate whose beard smells of sealing wax and dread, and a circus aerialist whose veins pulse with acrobat blood and Bolshevik syllables. Together they forge a clandestine triangulation: erotic, ideological, existential. By night the prosecutor’s palace becomes a labyrinth of forged passports, swapped ledgers, and lipstick ciphers on damask napkins; by dawn the city wakes to headlines that read like absurdist epitaphs. When a dossier vanishes—its pages containing proof that the state itself has committed premeditated murder—the daughter must choose between filial piety and the carnivorous truth. The finale is a danse macabre inside a courtroom turned opera house: confessions recited as arias, evidence projected like shadow-puppet nightmares, a verdict delivered not by gavel but by a single bullet fired into the ornate ceiling, letting plaster snow onto the wigs below. Love escapes on a freight train bound for the Baltic; justice remains, shackled to the furniture.
