At all times, under all the authorities, the traders of Odessa Privoz felt quite confident. But with the arrival of the Bolsheviks, everything changed: the military commandant of the market orders tribute to be paid from every shop, from every trading place, and this tribute is prohibitively large. There is panic on Privoz; most people have no money. And then they find a dismembered corpse, then another... And what is incomprehensible and terrible is that babies, no more than a few hours old, are found next to the body parts...