The secrets of success and survival today are the same as two and a half thousand years ago. China. 482 BC. The period of “Spring and Autumn” was coming to an end - a time of bloody civil strife, conspiracies and a fierce struggle for power. Prince Gou Zhian spent three years in captivity and returned home with a thirst for revenge. Soon the plan of his sophisticated revenge began to be implemented in a very unusual way... 2004. Russian businessman Danil Zalesny goes to China to conclude an important deal. However, things didn't go as planned. Negotiations break down over and over again, which leads Danil to vague guesses about an internal conspiracy. Very soon his wife finds herself drawn into a whirlpool of inexplicable events. She finds herself in the thick of the struggle between Chinese clans for the possession of a Doll made in the distant era of “Spring and Autumn”—an instrument of influence in the big game.