The basis of any large capital is crime. And it depends only on the personal qualities of the person who has broken the law: he will go to prison or successfully occupy his niche in the field of modern business. Business man Andrei Semin, having started with racketeering, having gone through betrayals and deaths of friends, through numerous temptations, is moving to the top, believing that somewhere there he will finally be able to cleanse himself and somewhere there salvation awaits him... He has yet to find out that at the heights of wealth the lack of oxygen is sometimes felt more strongly than in the poisoned swamps of poverty...