A young, successful officer, after starting his service in the capital of one of the prosperous Baltic republics, after the collapse of the USSR, finds himself in a provincial town, in the Russian outback, where he continues to serve in a training regiment, from which he retires in the early 90s due to reduction. His civil and family life does not work out, and he finds himself at the very bottom, without family and friends, without work and livelihood. A successful combination of circumstances gives him a sure chance to start all over again. But the path to returning to normal life is difficult and thorny. The action takes place in the mid-90s of the last century.