On December 25, 1999, in the city of Batuev, a cash-in-transit vehicle was robbed, more than 145,000,000 rubles were stolen. The robber turns out to be the driver of the collection vehicle German Nevolin ("German"). Together with the money, he hides in a small house in the abandoned village of Nenastye, where, by watching the recordings on his video camera, he recalls all the events that happened to him in Afghanistan and throughout the 1990s ...