He does not know hand-to-hand combat techniques. He doesn't shoot guns well. He is a seismologist scientist, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Evgeny Kuznetsov. He is alone, no one believes him. Close people die after touching a secret to which he must find the key. Because someone is always nearby, someone who is trying to interfere with the scientist... Through misunderstanding and opposition, through dizzying ups and downs, an unknown employee of the Institute of Physics of the Earth goes to make a revolution in the consciousness of mankind...