The dying businessman has been haunted for a long time by an obsession: at all costs he wants to take possession of the figurine “The Blacksmith’s Daughter,” which is kept in the local history museum of a provincial Volga town. Neither the bandits he sent to the case, nor the local police even suspect what secret this seemingly inexpensive craft from the times of socialist realism holds. And the thieves' passions boiling around the figurine are drawing more and more human destinies into their harsh nets...