The well-fed, measured life of the top of the city administration - the mayor, his deputies, large businessmen, the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper - is disrupted in the most unexpected way. A dead man appears among them. Memento mori - he reminds and says that he will destroy them all in a week. What is this? Someone's stupid joke or the machinations of competitors? And who is he, this ghost - a messenger from the other world or a man who somehow came to life and came to get even for his humiliation, ruin and imprisonment? And there’s no time to think—events are developing at hellish speed. During these fateful seven days, the life of the “city fathers” turns into a nightmare, into a brutal struggle for a place in the sun, for the preservation of what they always considered the main thing - power and wealth. Seven against one. One against seven. Who wins?..