这部影片讲述的故事发生在巴伦支海附近的小村中，但也可能发生在任何一个个人利益与政权利益发生冲突并且能够提前明确谁会赢得战斗的国家。贪得无厌的市长盯上了尼古拉一家所住的房子，并企图白占那块土地——实际就是强占。市长行为粗鲁，一切都在他的掌控之下，从警察局到法院，他知道如何驯服不顺从的人。On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor (Roman Madyanov), who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Kolya. To save their homes Kolya calls his old Army friend in Moscow (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor.