Petrovskaya Ekaterina Andreevna is a real careerist. She works as the head of the planning department of the Teploengineering company, considers herself an ordinary pawn and dreams of breaking through to queen. However, she is an irreplaceable pawn, otherwise they would not have sent her on important business trips and would not have paid her a decent salary. Ekaterina really needs this salary, because her husband, candidate of sciences Seryoga Petrovsky, comfortably settled on his wife’s neck. Moreover, he reproaches Catherine for living beyond her means. How can you live within your means when you have to pay off a car loan? And not only. The family somehow needs to eat, because the husband, although thin as a pole, eats like a tractor. Pavlush’s son is growing by leaps and bounds, you don’t have time to buy him new shoes. It wouldn’t hurt to take the whole family somewhere to Turkey on vacation, and Catherine herself should dress not anyhow, but in accordance with her position. So Ekaterina Andreevna Petrovskaya is spinning, spinning, twisting in every possible way. From one debt to another. The situation becomes more complicated when a certain Oleg Kovalchuk suddenly appears in the company. He brazenly takes the place that our pawn has long been aiming for, but at the same time it is clear to everyone in the company that this comrade does not have the knowledge necessary for such a position.