In the early spring of 1919 at Samson Kolechko during a street pogrom, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans - Zeleny, Grigoriev, Struk - are in charge ... Surviving is getting harder and harder. After strange circumstances - thanks to the writing desk of the late father - Samson Kolechko was recruited into the service of the police. This case is completely new for him, but he immediately, without thinking twice, begins to investigate crimes - those that are committed by the Red Army men stationed to him. Samson's investigations lead to completely unpredictable consequences ...