About the book: year / August 1941. The Great Patriotic War blazes, the Red Army suffers defeats and retreats. The leadership of the USSR made a decision to transfer part of the gold reserves from besieged Leningrad deep into the country. A young man, Ermolai Sergeev, a bank employee and custodian of valuables, becomes a participant in the operation of the Soviet secret services. The German and British intelligence services become aware of the operation. Other visible and invisible forces would also like to get their hands on gold, this eternally liquid asset that is not subject to any crises. The hero found himself in the midst of unpredictable events and situations with ambiguous consequences. A cruel, bloody war is going on in the rear, far from the front line... Will Ermolai have enough of his own strength and moral principles to emerge with honor from all the trials, sometimes deadly dangerous??..