Based on the novels by Andrei Konstantinov from the cycle "Youth of the Baron". Background to the television series Gangster Petersburg. 1962 year. The young and successful thief Yurka-Baron, having scanned another apartment theft, travels from Leningrad to Moscow to meet a man from his distant and terrible past. On the train, he recalls his life, which would probably have turned out differently - if it had not been for the war, not for the repressions, and not for the kinship of his mother with Lenin's personal driver, who had the imprudence to write an seditious manuscript ...