Frayerman joined the Red partizan unit fighting Japanese troops nearby Nikolayevsk, then as a komissar travelled through Siberia, helping to maintain the Bolshevik rule in regions inhabited by Tungus, Nivkh and Nanay people.
In Berlin, Germany in the year 1938, wealthy socialite Baruch Wane learns from his friend Komissar Garten that the police have confiscated the library, works, and notes of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, due to his stance against the Nazi Party policy of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.