"The parents of Kostya Voronov were previously convicted, he was born in a prison camp. Thanks to an authoritative father, he enjoys the support of legalists - criminal bosses who, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, have a new strategy related to a thieves' common fund related to one of the neighboring countries. They created an organized crime group there in the form of a mafia, which oppresses the local criminal world and allows Russian criminals to go to the west. The implementation of this plan was entrusted to Voron, who copes with the task, but the love for the girl who turned out to be the prosecutor forces him to seek a compromise between the law and gangster lifestyle. But is it possible to simultaneously live in a wolf pack and among people? The real story underlying the novel gives a convincing answer to this question.