This story began in the Siberian Novo-Nikolaevsk - riotous and criminal, where fortunes were rapidly made, and wealthy families miraculously coexisted with the “dark element” that flooded the city. Police chief Grechman loses three excellent horses. Grechman throws all his strength into searching for the thief, but a mysterious avenger turns the police chief’s life into a living hell... By chance, a troubled horse thief, fleeing from the police, hides under the bed of a spoiled schoolgirl Tonechka, and this act weaves into a tight knot the fate of an innocent girl, a desperate kidnapper and a man in power scoundrel...