He lived out his life in a collapsing Russia. He had no relatives or loved ones left. His son died fighting alongside NATO peacekeepers on the streets of Moscow. His granddaughter was killed by a gang of reckless thugs. In his present there were only poverty and death on the street from a heart attack. But as it turned out, he has a future too. And in that future he is given a chance to test whether one person can turn the car of history. Not just turn it—do it without superweapons and superknowledge, by the power of his own mind and a young girl’s body?