Sergei Aleshin, a forty-two-year-old retiree of the special services, was again needed by his “office”. He will have to go to an American prison to get out a certain Vasily, who was arrested by American intelligence services in Southeast Asia for allegedly illegal arms trafficking. Vasily knows something that makes the Americans ready to rot him in prison. And Sergei is not at all sure that he himself will not become a bargaining chip in the cruel games of several intelligence agencies of the world at once...