A simple but talented guy from a poor family accidentally runs into a girl from another, as it seems to him, unattainable world. At first, she is an unattainable height for him, he is an eternal pleb for her. For him, this meeting becomes fateful. He not only falls in love, but also makes a promise to himself that for her sake he will achieve everything in life: he will become rich, influential and then win her heart. The circumstances of the case and tell him the way to become an artel member. He takes the risky, deadly path of underground business in the USSR.