Accidental—or not quite?—a chance meeting with a fellow passenger on a train, a conversation over a shot of liquor, an animated argument… Can one person, if you send him back to the past, change history at least of one country, having all the knowledge of today? “I’d take it on, but who would suggest it,” says Andrei Sokolov, a man of our times. “Just like that—drop everything and do it?” the passenger doesn’t believe.
And then Andrei finds himself in the late seventies—in his own body as an eighth-grader from a Leningrad school. No one gives him any specific tasks, no instructions. He has to decide what to do himself: knowing about the coming collapse of the country, will he manage to find a warm place somewhere on the globe—since opportunities do exist—or will he stay and try to influence the course of the historical process, saving the USSR.