The brutal truth about the morals of Butyrka. The main character, a psychiatrist at the hospital of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, describes patients and colleagues, records episodes of everyday life in cells and medical rooms, where despair and criminal indifference, hypocrisy and naked vice coexist. The action takes place precisely at a time when a number of tragic incidents involving the death of persons under investigation in the capital’s detention centers are becoming public.