The novel consists of three stories: - "The apple of Dissension", "Playing the Gestapo Game" and the "Dead Indian". They are connected with each other by one main hero - Dmitry Olegovich Kurochkin. He is a modest pharmacist working in one of the Moscow SRI and he does not seem to be a superman. But as soon as Kurochkin is leaving his flat he immediately finds himself in the epicenter of tragic, intricate, mysterious and seem unbelievable events: