How to live for a person who has been in a serious car accident and has become an immobile cripple? This thought constantly haunts Kirill Lantarov - until now a successful, enterprising young man who took from life everything he wanted. However, he was incredibly lucky: while still in the hospital, Lantarov meets his future teacher, who has gone through his own circles of hell and has already begun to cleanse himself of the filth of existence . Shura Mazurenko, once a young hooligan, and then an Afghan paratrooper, murderer and criminal, managed, during a serious illness, to find ways of healing by joining the heights of book knowledge, amazing recipes from nature and the secrets of the teachings of great sages. He comes to the aid of Kirill.