The Soviet Union is changing rapidly. The new General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Grigory Romanov, called these changes Perestroika. “Returners” from the future to the past help prevent many mistakes of the Soviet and later Russian leadership - the war in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the loss of the union republics, the decline and collapse of the economy. But not everything is so simple - Maxim Zverev, who is the only one of the returnees who is able to return from past to the future, discovers that the future is also changing. And not always for the better. And most importantly, local change of the future is impossible. Maxim Zverev understands this after the US intelligence services contact him. It turns out that the Americans also have their own victims. Which are under the control of the CIA. And its director Gina Cheri Haspel begins her game...