Khabarovsk region. Taiga. Pavel Likhovtsev, a senior gamekeeper and bear hunter, keeps an apiary in the taiga and raises his eldest son Zhenka to be a real man. But with the arrival of the 90's the apiary goes bankrupt. Pavel and his family are forced to go to Khabarovsk in search of a better life. At this time in the city there is a redistribution of spheres of influence. Having got a job as a driver for Yura Krab, a former neighbour of the village and Zhenka's godfather, Pavel finds himself in the epicentre of gang warfare.
