1920. Rostov is devastated by civil war. The city is in chaos and rampant crime. The Soviet police are only in their infancy - yesterday's peasants and workers are unable to resist the gangs. Raiders, sharpers and street robbers feel unpunished. A stranger from our time finds himself in the thick of things. His consciousness was transferred to a young tramp thief. He does not intend to drag out a miserable life, but strives to become a member of the Soviet police. He plans to create a UGRO, because he has a past behind him - thirty years of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But it turned out that getting a job in the authorities was not so easy, and his former accomplices began hunting him...Proletarians of all countries, unite!