Roman Zabolotsky is a talented doctor with a great future. Suddenly, his entire usual life collapses like a house of cards: a relationship with a married woman named Margot leads to dire consequences. Margosha's husband, a police lieutenant colonel, having caught his wife with another man, accuses Roman of rape. Defending his honor and career, Semyon Pekarsky decides to pin a series of crimes on Roman, which results in six years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony...