The principled cop Zosima Ignatiev quarreled to smithereens with his superiors, resigned from the police and went to live with his brother, in a quiet village near Krasnodar. But I couldn’t enjoy a carefree life. A terrible tragedy occurred: during a home celebration, bandits brutally dealt with his brother and his family, and then set the house on fire. Zosima went to the police, but they told him that there had been an accident - the family died due to careless handling of fire. Then the former policeman began to investigate this case himself and soon realized that in the village the criminal structures had become so closely intertwined with the authorities that you could no longer tell who was a criminal and who was a civil servant...