Fate generously endowed journalist Igor Rostokin with a rare ability: to come out unscathed in the most unbelievable situations. And, as it goes, it spared no expense when it came to tests for him. By a miracle, surviving an encounter with a zombie on a Pacific island, Igor and his beloved are transported from their native 21st century to Russia in 1924—on the eve of a counterrevolutionary coup. Their friends become Andrei Novikov and Alexander Shulgin, who take on the functions of the Reality security service.