An unheard of thing: the Chinese thief in law went against his own. Not of his own free will, however, but he had to hire an executor to steal incriminating evidence from the lads about the big shots in power. The compromising evidence allowed the legitimate to go about their business with impunity. The Chinese didn’t like this thing - and everything really went awry: the performer got into trouble, left behind a bunch of corpses, and worst of all, the cool Moscow opera artist Tumanov was on his tail. And this means that sooner or later he will get to the Chinese. If fortune changes, there is no use hiding. All that remains is the code of thieves' honor, the laws of which are dearer to a real thief than life...