Multi-million contracts and brutal murders, prestigious positions and nervous breakdowns, luxurious villas and prison terms—these are the attributes of life for public people. In this difficult atmosphere, politicians and gangsters, glamorous beauties and businessmen—and also actors, fashionable lawyers, and unscrupulous journalists—feel at home. But what will happen to an ordinary person if they accidentally end up in this circle? Will they be able to keep at least their life, not to mention their principles, friends, and family?
A quiet life for the brilliant but naive engineer Nikolai Zavorykin and his wife, Lena, a school psychologist, ends when Nikolai’s former classmate visits them. Now a prominent politician, he suggests introducing Koly a investors he needs to continue working on a new invention…