Alexey Zhitkovsky

Uzbek citizen Yury Derbenev is sent to work in Moscow to raise money for the treatment of a seriously ill daughter. His profession, however, is inappropriate: Yury Alexeevich is a teacher of Russian language and literature. And by nationality he is Russian. After many ordeals and misfortunes into which the capital plunged him, Yury is faced with a choice: to go to kill and save his own daughter or remain an honest person.

A lonely postal courier inherits his deceased father's camera. Immersed in the world of film photography, he begins hunting for crime stories, unaware that he himself is being hunted.