On a cold winter's day Sergey Sobolev a major at the local police office is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness he's driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed it's already too late…