All great empires fade into oblivion, like ships sinking to the bottom of the sea, and leave behind the same great secrets. One of the secrets of the Soviet Empire is a package of Weimar shares that once belonged to the Third Reich. Until recently, Russia owned sixty percent of the most powerful German and pan-European industry - this is the Krupp concern, the automotive industry (Mercedes, Opel, Audi, etc.). The history, fate of these securities and the people who kept them became the plot of the novel by S. Alekseev.