A street thug kills and robs a former employee of Goznak, pensioner Nifontov, but the very next day he stupidly gets caught in the market while trying to sell gold trinkets. A banal robbery begins to take a completely different - serious turn when investigators find packs of counterfeit ones in the apartment of the murdered man. dollars. The fake turned out to be a fake of the highest class. By chance, the innocent artist Leonid Biryukov was drawn into the complicated story. Finding himself in a dizzying bind, from which there seems to be no way to get out alive, Leonid decides to enter into a brutal battle with ruthless criminals...