Detective Roman Dubrovsky, a former employee of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, finds himself embroiled in a monstrous political intrigue affecting the interests of the country's most influential people: the FSB suspects him of murder, he is pursued by an angry gang of counterfeiters. He almost single-handedly has to confront a powerful criminal corporation, striving for the heights of power. He plays cat and mouse with criminals, breaks into safes and rescues charming women. His life is filled with chases, gunfights and terrible secrets ...

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...