This book has two action-packed plot lines. The action of the odd chapters of the novel takes place during the revolution and the beginning of the civil war. Even? – describe the events of our days, taking place against the backdrop of the raider seizure of the Watch (read? – military) factory. What unites them is a common space? – a large provincial city in the center of Russia. In the novel? – Perm. But with the same success it could be Voronezh, Irkutsk, Vladivostok...Heroes? - a young romantic young lady and a smart, unprincipled "new Russian" - separated by a century. Each of them goes through their own path of adventure, testing and transformation, their own segment of Russian history. However, there is a strange connection between them: the characters and the reader have the feeling that the space of the city contains all times at the same time...?