A tough, "male" story about the fate of Seryoga Nechaev, a guy from a working-class district. It so happened that he had to take on the blame of others and go to jail instead of the dissolute son of a rich businessman. All ten long years of imprisonment, Sergey prepares himself for revenge — for himself to become one of the mighty of this world. After being released, on the way to his dream, Seryoga faces the unsightly side of business and engages in a deadly duel with criminals.
Major Stepan Krucha heads the criminal investigation department of the Bitovsky Department of Internal Affairs. He is the master of his "land". The bandits call him Wolfman, fearing for good reason: you can "get away" from justice, but not from an ardent defender of the law. Shoulder to shoulder with Krucha, his "cubs" - Fedot Komov and Roma Lozovoy - are standing guard over law and order. And let the bandits think that they are cooler than Cool, our heroes are not the ones who can be kept on a leash. They will take any enemy by the throat themselves...
The plot is tied to unusual works of art. Each of the paintings depicts a sleeping man, and the soul is enclosed in the canvas itself. This curse came to the modern world from an artist who loves his wife to madness. When she was dying, the master, by the power of his feelings, imprisoned her soul in a portrait. This legend inspired businessman Pavel Voronov to collect a collection of paintings with sleeping heroes. Photographer Kostya and art critic Agnes help him in this. The artist Alexey Tikhonov is also hunting for unusual paintings, who dreams of continuing the work of the master and learning how to enclose souls in portraits.