Fate generously endowed journalist Igor Rostokin with the rare ability to get away with it in the most incredible situations. And, as usual, she did not skimp on testing him. Miraculously, having survived after an encounter with zombies on a Pacific island, Igor and his beloved find themselves from their native 21st century to Russia in 1924 on the eve of a counter-revolutionary coup. Andrei Novikov and Alexander Shulgin, who took over the functions of Reality's security service, become their friends.