Inspector Vladimir Sazhin investigates an unusual case.

From the author: The film is my declaration of love for the people of the country in which I was born and lived for half a century. From photographs taken over the course of thirty years, at close range and without the "author's" distance in the montage, in my opinion, a whole human life in its various manifestations has developed.

As soon as civil servant receives a new high appointment, the all-powerful head of an underground business begins to take an interest in him, who wants to use him to establish connections with criminal structures abroad. Having failed to achieve what he wanted, he begins to take revenge...