Every year in Russia alone, according to unofficial data, about two hundred thousand people go missing. About half of them can be found sooner or later... alive or dead. The rest will never be found... If Eric Maksimov, a criminal police officer, could have imagined how a meeting with a minor informant would end for him, then, perhaps, he would never have gone to it. Together with fellow operatives, he finds himself in 1943, in the midst of a war going on in a parallel world, where the Germans are allies of the USSR, and the alliance of England and France is trying to establish world domination. For what purpose are people kidnapped? What is a shadow world? Who is playing dangerous games with humanity? This and much more remains to be discovered by Lieutenant Maksimov...