The protagonist of the picture is the senior police lieutenant Pavel Kravtsov (actor Sergey Bezrukov). He is a rather strange person. If someone has to handcuff, apologizes and asks if they are too tight. Kravtsov is ambitious and honest, young and serious. This is what prevents him from making a career in the city police. Fate throws him into the remote village of Anisovka, where the place of the district police officer was vacant.