Gleb, who tells his story in the very beginning, is being raised in a small town by his grandfather, a dentist, who teaches the blind boy to shoot. Later he is taken care of by his runaway father, a racketeer himself. When the father's apartment is destroyed with a barrage of machine-gun shots fired by the rival thugs, they travel to the Black Sea coast where both settle in a small resort. When he turns 22, he is cynically pushed by his father to lose his virginity during a visit to the nearby strip-club "New York," which is presented to him as the real America. His daddy, now a politician, is brutally massacred while he recovers sight at this very moment. His resolute determination is to avenge his father. It also develops the motive of true love and fidelity, started earlier when as a young boy vows to marry Nastia, his neighbor in the provincial town, and now finds her namesake reincarnation in a contemporary artist, a girl with shaved-head hairstyle. An idyllic love story ensues.