He works as a stoker and disposes bodies of people killed by local Mafia, which is headed by one of his former comrades from the Soviet Army.

He is a Yakut by nationality, a retired major, a sapper, a Hero of the Soviet Union, and a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan war.

Yakut's friends from the war, the talkative sniper "Sergeant" Mikhail and the silent cryptographer Vasily "Bison", who became bandits and murderers in the 1990s, bring the corpses of their victims to the firehouse for disposal.

Bison has an intimate relationship with the daughters of Yakut and Sergeant (Sasha and Masha, respectively), who are co-owners of a store selling fur from Yakutia.

Under the pretext that the business is established and can be run without Sasha, who, as co-owner, has the right to half the profits, she comes to her father and asks to kill her.

At the end, Vera's voiceover reads the story, illustrated by a silent black-and-white film - it is about a Russian khailakh, Kostya, who was sent to Yakutia as punishment.