In the center of the plot is the story of a journalist working for an opposition publication. Eberhard is smart, charismatic, witty, loved by women. Numerous personal problems lead to the fact that he radically changes his political views and begins to lead the press service of the administration of a small town N, lost somewhere in the vastness of the country R. The personal drama of the protagonist unfolds on the political intrigues of government departments. He plunges into detailed schemes of kickbacks, encounters a model of merging power and crime and the pyramid of Russian corruption. A complex, confusing combination of circumstances leads to poorly predictable and unexpected consequences for the main character. He is drawn into the intrigues of government departments that use immoral and immoral methods and means.