Top manager of a Moscow bank, master of financial combination Sergei Kolomnin finds himself in the midst of a battle between the Moscow oil lobby and a Siberian industrial magnate. To achieve his goal, Kolomnin risks his life, loses friends, becomes a victim of his own son’s betrayal, moves away from the woman he loves, and is ready to commit a crime. But at some point he realizes that in pursuit of results he has found himself on the verge of moral collapse...