The chief architect of the city, Maxim Karnach, is going through a difficult period in his personal life and career. Many years of misunderstanding, reproaches and family scandals forced him to make a bitter but firm decision: file for divorce from his beautiful wife Dasha. Karnach's friends and colleagues do not suspect what is happening in his family, so they don't understand his other act: self-rejection of his candidacy in the city party. After all, by doing so, he threatened both his career and the professional fate of his subordinates, who only under his leadership were able to finally begin to realize their creative projects. But Karnach is not going to give up his positions at all: despite the intrigues of his enemies and envious people, despite the pressure “from above“, he categorically refuses to approve the development project of the city center, which he considers incorrect.