In the novel “Rope of Sand” by the recognized master of action-packed prose Anatoly Yakovlevich Stepanov (1931–2012), which became the basis for the film of the same name (filmed in 2005 by director Mikhail Tumanishvili, starring: Alexander Volkov, Boris Nevzorov, Alexander Tyutin), visiting young people, who do not yet know what real Moscow life is, find themselves in dangerous situations, from which they are rescued by a strange man in a long leather coat, who demands certain services for this and appears at the most critical moments for the heroes...