An employee of the police archive, Major Andrey Vershinin, is suddenly promoted and transferred to the border town of Portovy. Vershinin will take the post of head of the Department of Internal Affairs instead of the recently deceased Colonel Avdeev. The new boss is greeted coldly: subordinates are in almost open conflict with him, and the press and the public, agitated by the recent series of robberies, are simply outraged by this appointment. Journalist Anna Loginova becomes Vershinin's only…
An employee of the police archive, Major Andrey Vershinin, is suddenly promoted and transferred to the border town of Portovy. Vershinin will take the post of head of the Department of Internal Affairs instead of the recently deceased Colonel Avdeev. The new boss is greeted coldly: subordinates are in almost open conflict with him, and the press and the public, agitated by the recent series of robberies, are simply outraged by this appointment. Journalist Anna Loginova becomes Vershinin's only…