A young man from the president's team, Wes Holloway, has been tormented for several years by the thoughts that because of him a person died: the mentally ill Nico Adrian shot and killed Ron Boyle. At the same time, a stray bullet irreparably disfigured Holloway himself. What was it: punishment for a mistake or the cruel rules of someone else's game? Eight years later, the story receives an unexpected continuation. Questions arise again, the answers to which seemed buried in the past...