In the late eighties, Slava Krechetov received a prison term for fighting, and when he was released, he did not recognize his native Panfilovsk at all. The life of a quiet provincial town has changed dramatically. The building of communism no longer bothered the townspeople. Speculation, shooters, racketeering and showdowns - that’s how our small homeland now lived. Metamorphoses excited the blood, the smell of freedom was intoxicating, and Krechet rushed into the very thick of events, into the very “hell of life.” He joined a local criminal gang, fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the area and began a new, desperate life...