The wild nineties: privatization of state property, businessmen who look like gangsters, gangsters with the aspirations of businessmen, showdowns, shootouts—and at the center of this whirlwind is the modest, life-beaten engineer Govorov, forced to work as a janitor and, by a twist of fate, finding himself an important figure in the privatization of a major factory. Will he be able to overcome the dangers surrounding him? Will he manage to take advantage of the winnings fate has tossed his way?