Leo Gurov’s former colleague has gone missing. Dmitry Bykov, a retired deputy head of the Organized Crime Unit (UBOP), has been doing private investigations lately. Before he vanished without a trace, he called his lover and said just one phrase—ridiculous by today’s standards and, at first glance, completely meaningless: “Soviet Motherland”…
Some time later, in Nizhny Novgorod, a petty con man named Duzhkin appears, who passes himself off as a private detective, showing a license for detective practice belonging to the missing Bykov… Gurov and his partner Krychko go to Nizhny, track down the scammer Duzhkin—and are immediately forced to save their lives in a brutal, bloody shootout…