Autumn 2007. In the Soviet Union, perestroika has been replaced by “normalization”; a hybrid of socialism and capitalism is being built under the old flag with the hammer and sickle. But unresolved problems of the past, including irremovability of power and corruption, are making themselves felt. At the same time, the behind-the-scenes struggle within the Politburo is intensifying. The stakes are high: control over windfall profits from the oil boom and the choice of a successor as secretary general. In the battle between political heavyweights, much begins to depend on chance and... the position of those who are not visible from the Kremlin. People without high positions have their own opinions about where the country should go. Or where it shouldn't. An extreme situation pushes a KGB officer and an international journalist, an air defense officer and a schoolteacher towards each other. The consequences of the current events extend beyond the borders of the USSR and threaten to lead to a global crisis... What will be the next anniversary of the Basic Law?