This 16-episode mini-series is based on Russian author Valentine Bardzinsky`s novel of the same name, "Okhota na geniya" (To Hunt a Genius)", the first book in his ongoing "Tsenturion (Centurion)" series of crime novels. Mikhail Kovalenko is a journalist who covers criminal themes for a commercial television channel based in Moscow. Very talented in his work, he is charming and successful. His spare time is filled with interesting friends and fulfilling pastimes, when not spent with his beautiful and much beloved girlfriend. When a fellow journalist, environmentalist Bogdan Sokorov, mysteriously dies, Mikhail decides to investigate. He is soon drawn into a plot by a maniacal criminal to kill a famous Ukrainian microbiologist, Dr. Igor Shokhin, who, while researching ways to combat biological weapons, has discovered how to make the human body immune to all infectious diseases.