For several thousand years, the super-civilizations of Aggros and Forzeileys have been at war with each other, choosing Earth as the arena for their secret battles. Time travel and “rewriting” the past are one of the tactics of this war. But history is made by the very people of Earth—and that’s precisely why the aliens need Andrey Novikov and his friends.
The heroes of V. Zvyagintsev’s novel refuse to be a blind instrument of alien intelligence. Taking an Aggro resident captive, they begin their own game, the main events of which unfold at the beginning of the 20th century—where, after several journeys through time and space, our contemporaries end up.