After undergoing a rigorous selection process and a special training course, Oleg Shorokhov ends up in the Unified Control Service, which monitors unauthorized movements along the Time Highway. Now he is the opera Rustle, a man without a past. His job is to protect the present from the criminal actions of aliens from the future who seek to change their destiny by making adjustments to the past. His daily task is to restore cause-and-effect relationships broken by outside interference. However, Shorokh soon realizes that the Highway is not a straight road at all, but a winding path, each turn of which has been calculated in advance by someone.