The First World War has ended, the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War have died down... But there is no rest for the former military intelligence officer Irtenyev, well known to readers from the story “The Viennese Tale”. For the new government, he remains an enemy, and his former comrades have long become strangers. So Irtenyev has to desperately fight both for his life and for the happiness of the people dear to him...