Ignat Zharov, a young promising journalist, is conducting an independent investigation. He joins the ranks of a certain mysterious sect “Growth”, which appeared out of nowhere and quickly spreads its influence throughout the world. It soon becomes clear that the sect endows its members with extraordinary strength, unprecedented mental and physical capabilities. But the goals of this organization raise more and more doubts in Ignat... The head of the sect, irresistibly striving for absolute power, is preparing an unexpected and crushing blow, and it seems that the whole world is destined to fall into his hands. Only the mysterious First, who possessed the power of Growth even before the appearance of the sect, can save humanity, and at the same time Ignat and his friends. Traces of the First are lost in a remote mountain monastery...