The attempt to free Marika from the Cubiculum Magistorium has failed. The Master offers the wandering knight Lekha Ostashov and the now magic-technician Toga a difficult choice β to enter one of the portals opened into a random reality. The portal is chosen, but beyond it lies the cruel and grim post-nuclear world of the Fourth Reich in 2038.
A world in which Russia no longer exists, where a population herded into reservations lives in constant terror of the Reich's war machine and the mysterious nachttoters, who come by night and take lives. Why did the Second World War end with a Nazi victory? How can history be changed and tens of millions of people saved? For now, only one thing is clear to Lekha β he has never found himself in such a dangerous situation before.