Strange dreams and obsessions pushed the most ordinary people to escape through mysterious portals into a world called the Bridgehead. Retired military men, criminals and ordinary people have no idea that they all turned out to be victims of an alien civilization. And now everyone capable of holding a weapon must fight with intelligent and irrational life, abundantly available on the Bridgehead, and in the future - with their own kind. After all, those who are unable to fight, sooner or later, will be made slaves. And only a few know the true goals of the aliens. These few came to the Beachhead to divide and conquer. They are opposed by “survival specialists” Sergei Kupriyanov and Vladimir Podolsky, who have yet to find out who is hiding under the pseudonyms Commandant, Admiral, Templar? And are they people?..