Surviving betrayal, murder charges and the collapse of his career, Maxim has one last thing left - a tiny apartment in a very old house. The residents are not happy with their new neighbor, and a life-and-death war immediately begins between them. Meanwhile, they are facing a common misfortune - the house must give way to a shopping center: everything has been decided, the land has been sold, only the people remaining in the house are in the way. They all have nowhere to go, officials give such a pittance for their property that you can’t even buy a barn, and neighborly civil strife develops into a war of liberation. And the house itself begins to gradually reveal its secrets; the doomed defenders are helped by their native walls and the shadows of the past...