Dmitriy Lysenko

Odesa in the early 2000s. A few local residents go to the cemetery to remove the monuments of famous Odesa citizens. All along the way, they encounter phenomena and people characteristic of the city.

It is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kyiv. A special squad is tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people’s misery.

The series features a hero of our time, a guy who after being discharged from the front challenged the circles of crime and corrupt officials in the capital. The series stars Vlad Nikitiuk, a well-known actor and volunteer as the protagonist. The story centers on a turning period in the life of a young man, Igor Shvedov. On the very first day of his return from the front, his older brother, the only person dear to him, is killed before his eyes. Unexpectedly, he learns that his brother was an influential criminal mastermind and starts suspecting that the people in his circle are not at all who they pretend to be. To find his brother's killer, he joins the police and begins his war against organized crime and bent cops.