Businessman Mikhail Matveev managed to survive the turbulent 90s. How and at the expense of whom is a special question that has long become a family secret for Mikhail and his wife Martha. And everything would have gone just as quietly and smoothly if Matveev’s longtime rival, Ilya Trezubov, had not suddenly appeared. Once upon a time, at the dawn of “lawlessness,” Mikhail recaptured Marta from him. Then everything cost literally little bloodshed. Will we really have to take up arms again this time? Matveev does not even suspect that a dark streak has already come for him, and Trezubov is only the “first swallow” in a series of terrible and merciless revelations that have begun.