The wild nineties, the privatization of state property, businessmen who look like bandits, bandits with the aspirations of businessmen, showdowns, shootouts, and in the center of this cycle is a modest engineer Govorov, overwhelmed by life, forced to work as a janitor and, due to a combination of circumstances, turned out to be an important figure in the process of privatization of a large plant. Will he be able to overcome the dangers surrounding him? Will he be able to take advantage of the winnings that fate has given him?