Hedvika would like to be a journalist. She succeeds with her application and joins the editorial staff of the experienced reporter Vlach. In the same time, the ambitious Roman Wies assumes the office of editor-in-chief's deputy. His desire for success is strong and the path to it may lead, figuratively, over dead bodies. Inexperienced and naive Hedvika, who just mentioned the yet unpublished juicy details in the affair of the rich Schneider's sudden death, could become just that. The affair has just flooded all the media.