After the Afghan captivity, Nikolai Naydenov, a former orphanage, ends up in the United States, gets a job as an instructor in one of the sports clubs, gets married and receives American citizenship. Life is developing as well as possible. After a while, he comes to his former homeland to his army friend Sergei and learns from his wife that Sergei was killed by order of the leaders of one of the clans of the local mafia. The next day, after brutal torture, the militants also kill Sergei's pregnant wife with several blows to the stomach.