The main character, Andrei Shamanov, "Shaman", a former elite spetsnaz fighter, comes to a small town to visit an army friend
Shaman becomes a witness of terrible events - the local population, ordinary people, are deprived of rights, dishonored, their dignity is trampled. Shamanov remains either passing by, closing his eyes, or starting to act, opposing himself to a vicious system of power, years of sharpening and gaining lethal force