Galicia, the end of the 19th century. The governor of Galicia, Casimir Badeni, his brother, the ambassador to the Galician Diet, Stanislav Badeni, and the Minister of Finance of the Empire, Julian von Dunaevsky, are playing undercover games to promote the governor to the position of Minister-President. Julian wants to become the Minister of Foreign Affairs. However, the brothers and the minister have completely different visions of political processes.
The first step was to imitate reconciliation between Ukrainians and Poles, which caused discord in Ukrainian politics.
Lawyer Jan Chaplynsky becomes an active member of the newly created political force - the Ukrainian Radical Party. He begins to discover the political world of the region for himself. Overcoming all sorts of obstacles and difficulties, Jan works tirelessly to popularize the party.
Due to the Badeni brothers' distrust of Julian and their intrigues against him, he is dismissed from his post, but von Dunaevsky never found out what caused this.
The brothers start political processes that they themselves cannot always control. All this will lead to accidental murder, blackmail and bribery of officials, attempts to get even with political opponents... and most importantly, not the last of his "celestials" will be overthrown from the imperial "Olympus".