In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…

This is a story about a young engineer. Every year he examines an old rundown bridge and under orders from his superiors announces it fit for exploitation. Every night a girl comes to his apartment. Their relationship is wrought with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. What will collapse first - the bridge or the relationship?

A sixty-year-old Victor, living in a small provincial town, learns about the disappearance of his adult son and sets out in search of him.