A stunningly beautiful and rich woman comes to Alexey Sotnikov, a young archaeologist who has just failed his dissertation defense. She offers Alexey a million dollars so that he can find her husband, who disappeared six months ago, an oligarch and State Duma deputy who financed archaeological excavations carried out by an expedition in which Alexey participated. And along with the oligarch, the golden figurine of the goddess Lada that was brought to him also disappeared. Alexey, who has never worked as an opera operator, or as an investigator, or even as a private detective, but, by his own admission, was “a stunt performer, in some way a circus performer, an athlete, a soldier...”, nevertheless agrees. Moreover, he has his own secret connected with the excavations... If only he knew where this would lead...