After 20 years, all in the same Odessa, the grown-up Volodya Patrikeev continues to fight crime. After serving in prison in 1937, having served in the penal battalion, and then in the reconnaissance company, he returned to civilian life and begins to investigate complex criminal cases. The year is 1946, a new enemy of the head of the Odessa police department has stolen Scythian gold and is trying to take it to Turkey.