Dmitrii Petrukhin

Viktor Rastorguev, a police colonel, moved to St. Petersburg with his entire family. In Moscow, he crossed paths with a certain official and was forced to leave. He would no longer have been allowed to serve peacefully in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, Rastorguev became the head of the district police department in one of the city's districts. Rastorguev's family moved with him: his wife Olga and 16-year-old son Pavel. They are trying to settle into their new home, but everything in their lives is not turning out the way they would like...

None of the operatives voluntarily wanted to go to work in the new district of Vaselkovo, cut off by the railway "ring". Four "shot down pilots" were found in the department: Yegor Ozhogin, who began to drink frequently after the death of his wife, Anatoly Davydov, whose hussar adventures did not please the authorities, Mikhail Belsky, who carried out a successful and profitable operation with financial assistance, and the naive orphanage boy Sergei Matyukhin, who regarded his appointment to the department as a promotion.