Alexander Shulgin is a thinker and adventurer, a soldier of Truth and a strategist of the Game - another proof that there is only one warrior in the field. His current journey through chimerical realities - on the verge of a foul, separated from his friends - allows him not only to add a few more points to people’s accounts in their confrontation with the Holders and Players, but also to reveal a new opponent, who for the time being has been accumulating strength and is in no hurry discover yourself. Under the guise of People's Commissar of the Defense Industry Grigory Shestakov, Alexander starts a game on the field of the pre-war Soviet Union with Stalin himself. Without knowing the exact answers, Shulgin feels that changing history at this particular point is absolutely necessary...