Lawyer Gordeev is asked for a favor by his university teacher, a famous lawyer whose adult daughter, who was successfully involved in the tourism business, disappeared. Simultaneously with this unpleasant event, her husband, a State Duma deputy and a former famous athlete, died in a car accident. Law enforcement agencies show surprising indifference to both of these dramas, and Gordeev undertakes to protect the parental interests of the professor, not realizing what tangle of political and personal passions he will stir up in the process.