In January 1980, the Munich-Johannesburg airliner crashed in the Sahara, burying the crew and most of the passengers under its wreckage. It seems, what does the mighty, but isolated from civilization, USSR have to do with it? Meanwhile, the top of Soviet intelligence now has in their minds a shooting corridor that is rapidly approaching... The key to their salvation in Vienna lies not in the Soviet embassy, but in a deeply conspiratorial structure that is a shadow world government. Contact between two such dissimilar forces supposedly promises salvation, but the price of assistance - handing over to L. Brezhnev a CIA report reflecting the slippage of the Soviet military-industrial complex - only delays the fatal outcome. At the same time, the head of Soviet intelligence and his comrades do not know that the object of their sorrows survived, moving across the Sahara in the backpack of the messenger they sent, who survived the disaster. His path lies to the recipient of the parcel - spy-entrepreneur Shabtai Kalmanovich.