Mikhail is a pilot written off as a result of a combat injury. During the rehabilitation period, he was invited to work at the largest scientific and technical center of the Country, leading the development and implementation of innovations, including in weapons. Having received a white coat, badge, and pass, he finds himself at his workplace, stuffed with various equipment. The work seems boring and useless, and he cannot name the equipment inside the office except “crap.” In the next hangar there is a Ka-52 combat vehicle, all his thoughts are in the cockpit of this helicopter. Having given in once to his curiosity, he becomes a target of hunting, in the center of events of industrial espionage, an area of innovation - capable of revolutionizing sabotage operations and camouflage. Rot in prison or betray the memory of a friend - a colleague, loyalty to the Country, but to be a rich subject of another state? What he will choose, because there is no third option - read in the story “True to Myself.”