The patrol ship "Fearless" goes to sea after a major overhaul, gets caught in a storm and literally falls apart. The team quickly gets onto life rafts and waits for help. But the sailors fail to escape: a coast guard helicopter appears and mercilessly shoots them. Only senior mate Medvedkin remains alive... The head of a secret anti-corruption organization, General Dugin, orders his best agent Larin to look into this story. Larin goes to the hospital with the intention of interrogating Medvedkin and learns that the first mate has suddenly died...