To pass on a thin verge - here art of advocate. From one side are criminals ready on everything, to avoid punishment. From other are employees of punitive organs. Both sides hate each other. Advocate - between them. Valery Карышев, known advocate, tells about complications and dangers of the profession. His clients were the most different people - from a legendary killer Солоника to obscure woman-doctor, getting in difficult scrape. Hoods threatened him, FSB watched after him, not once his life hung by a hair. Ingenious traps, hard pressing, direct blackmail is waited advocate on his thorny way. And only the guiding star of law helps him confidently to lay a route between the devil and the deep sea.