The people celebrated the new year, 1923, in a new country - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But the appearance on the map of a new state of workers, peasants and working intelligentsia did not mean the disappearance of old problems.Operationally, a criminal investigation officer, Georgy Bystrov, receives information that he is to be killed. The information is one hundred percent accurate, but it's not clear where the blow will come from, who will deliver it. In order to protect himself and his loved ones, he must figure out as quickly as possible who and, most importantly, what he crossed the road in, who is such a bold and authoritative "ordered" an employee of the UGRO.