Sergey Nikitin

In one of the chemical laboratories in Switzerland, controlled by the CIA, work on a deadly virus — intended for military use — has been completed. Russian intelligence agencies take a special interest in the development and assign mathematician David Bronstein to obtain a sample of the potential chemical threat.

Tired of the image of a merry man and a buffoon, Vladimir Marconi decides to leave the career of a successful showman and tries himself in the popular genre of investigative journalism.