Two graduates of the chemical department at Moscow State University meet after a long separation. One is Alexei Bobrovsky, a successful scientist, a Doctor, a winner of the Presidential award for young scientists for 2009, whose face is often seen in glossy magazines. The other is Alexei Nikitin nicknamed "Doctor". His career had a brilliant start in the USA, was continued in Seoul. But at some point Doctor Nikitin gave up science and stopped communicating with the outer world. But once he saw a TV program with Alexei Bobrovsky and was forced to make a call to his friend...