We are talking about the events of twenty-five years ago. The young Leningrad boys then went to the mythical country of Shambhala, rumored to be lost among the dazzling peaks of Tibet, somewhere between India and China. The guys wanted to see the country they had heard so much about and believed in. Perhaps it was a search for new ideas and priorities, cleansed of the myths of the past decades.

A Russian billionaire is brutally killed on the outskirts of Moscow. Vasily, a simple school teacher becomes an unwilling witness to this murder during his routine morning bike ride. The police, unable to find the criminals, begin to suspect Vasily and he quickly becomes the prime suspect. At the advice of his daughter, who also happens to be his attorney, Vasily allows himself to be placed in a psychiatric ward to avoid being incarcerated for the false accusation. It is believed that a fictitious diagnosis will help her father's case, but Irina doesn't realize that she has handed her father into the hands of a psychiatrist, Dr. Korzunov, who is conducting inhumane experiments that no medical professional would ever accept.