When rich young businessman Andrei is suddenly arrested in his home in Moscow, he is not unduly worried. After all, things have changed since the bad old Soviet days and he has already hired a crack lawyer to prepare for just this event.
But implacable forces are ranged against Andrei, and to his horror he is forced to do serious time in one of the Russia's most notorious prisons. Surrounded by hardened criminals with a low opinion of the nouveau-riche financial classes, cut off from his expensive lifestyle, betrayed by those he once trusted, Andrei turns inwards and discovers a new life amid the debris of the old.