College adviser Lykov committed a crime before his superiors. Bandits killed the parents of his assistant Sergei Avestopulo in Odessa. And he involved Sergei himself in the search for the killers, and did not send him to St. Petersburg, as ordered. As punishment, Lykov was sent to the Turukhansk region. From there, escapes of exiles became more frequent; we need to find out how they manage to escape from such a disastrous place. Arriving at the Arctic Circle, the detective learns that the shoots have been put on stream. And somewhere in the vicinity of Irkutsk there are “rooms for fugitives” hidden. In them, the elite of the criminal world sits out, changes their appearance, and receives new documents. And when the police stop searching for them, the bandits return to big cities. It’s not for nothing that Irkutsk is called the capital of fugitives. Lykov decides to go there to find and destroy the stash...