Among the particularly important criminal cases being investigated by Senior Assistant Prosecutor General Alexander Turetsky, there was one rather routine one: a night attack on a famous lawyer, a former employee of the Prosecutor General's Office. Merkulov takes control of the murder of his colleague. But, finding out the circumstances of the death of the lawyer, Alexander Borisovich discovers that the traces lead to the Moscow region - where an unprecedented criminal redistribution of land began, pitting the interests of oligarchs and criminals against each other.