Former KGB officer Pavlo Selikhov returns home to pay debts after six years in prison for defamation of "his own". Party bosses who have access to the archives suicide mysteriously. Selikhov is well acquainted with the scheme according to which all who had to do with the CPSU's gold were "cleaned". His lover, the daughter of a high-ranking military man who recently "accidentally" threw himself out of the window, also falls into this meat grinder. On her death, the girl begins to help Paul ...