Andrey Kurganov, general director of the Russian Diamonds company, learns that the new government is going to remove him from his position and replace him with his own man. This is understandable: the place is rich, and there are more than enough people willing to stand at the “feeding trough”. But Kurganov is not very upset. Over the years of service, he managed to hide a lot of precious stones for a rainy day. And he did it almost officially: his stones are stored in a bank along with state ones, only the numbers in the reporting documents are “fake”. Kurganov decides that the time has come to pick up his stones, and turns for help to the masterly thief Stepan Shabanov, for whom robbing a vault with diamonds is a piece of cake...