In ten-year-old Itzik's house, 387 clocks tick away the time in different voices. This unique collection, assembled by his father and grandfather – skilled watchmakers – will have to be left behind. The Hitlerite army is advancing on Poland. Itzik's family finds themselves first in Soviet Astrakhan, and then in Bukhara. Itzik himself is now called Caesar. But one thing remains unchanged – the boy dreams of returning home, to their family collection... These dreams will push him to commit a crime that the newspapers will call nothing less than ‘The Elegant Robbery.’ Decades later, Designer Zhorka will be initiated into the secret of ‘The Elegant Robbery.’ He is also Georges, Georg, Jürgen, Shchors – depending on the country he is in. But for now, he is just an orphaned boy, Zhorka, obsessed with hiding places and numbers.