The mayor's daughter, spoiled and accustomed to full service, suddenly finds herself penniless in a strange city, where no one knows her. Her young son, the mayor's grandson, is kidnapped by unknown assailants. The mayor himself ends up in the clinic with a massive heart attack. All this is the result of a behind-the-scenes struggle for the position of mayor in the upcoming elections. A young, uninhibited journalist from the capital’s newspaper is trying to find out which of the mayor’s rivals is behind this crime.