The main characters of the film are two - an independent journalist and a private detective. One is aristocratic and refined, the other is assertive and inflexible. One takes with the mind, the other takes impudently. Two friends: Pyotr Volkov - a thorough and harsh former operative nicknamed Volchara. And the ironic Alexander Adashev-Gursky is an independent journalist whose last name hints at his long-standing noble roots. They are unlike each other, but together they are knee-deep in the sea ... In the serial film "Two from the Casket" their friendship will be tested more than once by deadly alterations.