Unlucky businessman Yuri Kolokoltsov agrees to exchange documents with a friend in law enforcement and, under his name, to go work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs secretariat. Shuvaylov himself isn’t interested in a job in a “rat pit”; he dreams of going to America, especially since big-time gangsters have pressured him. But his uncle—Deputy Minister—needs a relative in that position.
Yuri has nowhere to go: he wrecked someone else’s car, injured a person, and now he faces a prison sentence. He becomes Shuvaylov, moves into his apartment, and takes the post under the “uncle’s” wing. The division of property, gangster showdowns, bribes, mutual responsibility—everything starts to swirl. The fake Shuvaylov begins rapidly climbing the career ladder…