At the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care, every day is a working day—or rather, not simply a working day, but a daily battle to save human lives and health. Working in the surgical department is especially difficult, but also incredibly fascinating. The team of doctors and medical staff work under the leadership of Mikhail Iosifovich Breslavets, while the main burden of the most complex operations falls to the talented surgeon Oleg Bragin, whose personal life, for various reasons, can hardly be called cloudless or happy. Though in his own way he is happy: he has friends, mistresses, and a beloved job that takes up a great deal of time, energy, and even his health.
