Khabarovsk Territory. Taiga. Pavel Likhovtsev, a senior huntsman and bear hunter, keeps an apiary in the taiga and brings up his eldest son Eugene as a real man. However, with the advent of the nineties, the apiary goes bankrupt. Pavel and his family are forced to go to Khabarovsk in search of a better life. At this time, Khabarovsk is undergoing a redistribution of spheres of influence — all power and all resources are transferred to the organized criminal group "Obshchak" — a gang that will soon become the largest criminal group in the world.