Big money means big problems. If we are talking about a new, truly grandiose project for the construction of an oil pipeline from Russia to the East, then is it any wonder that problems are pouring in as if from a cornucopia?.. Aides convince the president to send the blessed flow of oil to Japan, and lobbyists in the government, generously sprinkled with money, insist in the "Chinese" version. Proof of their rightness should be the murder of the Minister of Tyazhenergoprom, cleverly disguised as a plane crash. An operational investigation team led by Alexander Turetsky takes on the case...