Luka, a young man who had previously run away from his mother’s home again and again, spent most of his childhood living on the streets. He got a job at a hospital as a janitor. His younger brother ends up in the same hospital—a boy in an artificial coma who needs a serious operation that his mother—an addict—can’t afford. Luka works himself to exhaustion to save his brother.
At the same time, a young promising surgeon, Heinrich Weber, returns from vacation. A German by origin, he arrived in Russia for his own business and is temporarily practicing in the local hospital. The nurses tell Luka that Heinrich has connections in Vienna and could perform an operation like that—only the doctor has a nasty temper. Luka decides that he will persuade Heinrich to save his brother no matter what it takes.