In New York, a modest restaurant owner, Valentin Bakatin, died under mysterious circumstances, in which local law enforcement agencies had long suspected the leader of a drug mafia who had established an unprecedented supply of cocaine from... Eastern Europe. Following this, his driver, who was a secret informant for the Police Department, disappeared. An American police officer, Russian by origin, is tasked with going to Russia to privately, together with the Gloria security agency, find out who ordered the murder of Bakatin and who will now become his successor.