Vse, chto kazalos' nadezhnym i vechnym v mgnovenie rushitsya, kak kartochnyy domik. Zhizn' prevrashchaetsya v nastoyashchiy ad. Kovarstvo i lozh' blizkikh lyudey, ne terpyashchie zarekaniy suma i tyur'ma - shchedro "odarivaet" zlodeyka-sud'ba popavshego v peredryagu Antona Gromova. V nedavnem proshlom boevoy ofitser, on vsyacheski staraetsya soprotivlyat'sya napastyam i vdrug uznaet chereda postigshikh ego nevzgod est' ne chto inoe, kak iskusnyy spektakl', postanovkoy kotorogo rukovodit khitryy, zhestokiy i alchnyy mstitel'.