The events unfolding around the mysterious metal figurine of the Armadillo are uncontrollably unwinding not only in space, but also in time. The heroes are transferred from the building of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University to the Congolese partisan detachment under the command of Che Guevara; riding a horse they get from the middle of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st... Yulka Gumileva escapes from a secret CIA base to lose her freedom again, but in a mysterious monastery, lost in the jungle of Bolivia, where nuns worship the unknown and sinister Saint Chimorta; and a young trapper of Russian origin receives a strange book by a Soviet science fiction writer in order to unravel its secret many decades later.