The former manager of a large grocery store Pavel Shorokhov, returning from prison and not receiving the welcome expected from his wife, who had forbidden him to meet his son, temporarily moved in with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the system of movement of unrecorded goods. Kotov, who is dying, gives the lists to Shorokhov and thus puts him in danger in front of his former accomplices. But Shorokhov breaks the infernal circle ...