Despite the carefully developed “legend” by the Center, the infiltration operation gets out of control. After the famous Stalin order No. 227—“Not one step back!”—a special forces man from the future ends up in a penal company—the “black infantry,” as the Germans called the penal troops. Ahead of him awaits bloody reconnaissance by force, capture, escape, and a new confrontation with super-professionals of Abwehr and the NKVD…