A well-known journalist is assassinated during the presidential campaign in Poland. The media pushes the narrative of Russian interference in the country's internal affairs, in order to support Silesian separatists and destabilize the situation. From a small spark, a geopolitical conflagration is ignited, capable of causing enormous damage.
Ivan, former detective and now ex-con seeks revenge for the death of his partner and for the injustice that put him in jail many years ago. ‘Seek and you shall find’ — out of nowhere a beautiful woman offers him the archenemy on a silver platter. Ivan is temped, how can he resist? This murder-for-hire puts him in a league of assassins that he’s desperately trying to escape. His conscience screams but his circumstances prevail. On the road to his next target, he suffers from a memory loss after a car accident. Saved by a roadside motel owner, a beautiful woman, former killer-for-hire is living in a state of an ignorant bliss. But the trouble finds him. Torn between Scylla and Charybdis, the protagonist now has to face the most dangerous target while having to save his family and his soul from being completely destroyed.
The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.