August 1989. The first steps towards creating your own economic empire have been taken. Millions were earned, cooperatives were opened, and work began to take control of the most profitable sectors of Soviet industry. Mikhail Elizarov, along with his companions and secretary, flies to New York. He has huge plans for the future: taking advantage of the after-knowledge, making billions on the Stock Exchange and concluding lucrative contracts. But it's not that simple. He and his friends find themselves in such a tangled tangle of intrigues and conspiracies of the Powers of This World that everything changes. We have to play a dangerous, on the verge of a foul, game with the sharks of global capital. Not only the lives and future of Elizarov himself and his friends are at stake, but also the fate of the Motherland...