A student named Nikita unexpectedly has his real father appear—an entrepreneur who is far from poor. The young man is happy: now his life and his mother’s life will finally start improving. But happiness doesn’t last long—soon the man is found dead in his own garage. At the advice of friends, Nikita turns to Colonel Gurov from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the colonel takes on the case. The traces lead investigators to Cherepovets, where the murdered man was selling metal. Could it be a typical revenge by competitors? That theory seemed plausible—until Gurov and Kryachko uncovered a major power broker who controlled secret schemes of criminal business…