Popadanets from 2017 in 1977 worked on a collective farm, returned to the city and is now trying to change something in life, his own, his home and his city. He arranges a HOA in his house, organizes an eastern gymnastics section and an ensemble, speculates with coins, records and books, builds relations with party and law enforcement agencies, and as a result finds himself at a broken trough. The fifth book in the series "Empire at the Edge." The hero, having passed fire, water and copper pipes, again starts everything from scratch.