The plot of the painting unfolds in two time planes – in our time and in the 1930s. It is known that Stalin was very fond of cinema. Once upon a time, after watching Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush, he decided that the Soviet country should begin gold mining, of course, by political forces. The Stalin movie mechanic was appointed chief of the gold mines at Kolyma, who began his work so fervently that he began to make bullets out of gold and received the Order of Lenin.

It's been over 70 years. Sometime during a walk in the park, a young journalist, Nikolai Vorotnitsky, came upon a corpse of a well-known businessman and politician. Next to the body lay the Order of Lenin, and the murder was committed by a golden ball. An independent investigation leads the journalist to a real killer – but he decides not to publish his name. Not even a huge monetary reward can convince the disclosure of the secret – it is not about money, but ethics.