The son of a major businessman with ties to the criminal world is accused of participating in a gang rape. Yuri Petrovich Gordeev, a former investigator at the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, a colleague and ally of Alexander Borisovich Turetsky, well known to readers, and now an aspiring lawyer, by force of circumstances acts as a defender of the young man and unexpectedly finds himself in the center of a criminal “showdown”, in which corrupt officials of the highest branches of government participate .