A continuation of the adventures of our contemporary, a veteran of the legendary Alpha Group, who has “fallen through” into the bloody nightmare of World War II. The scientists’ attempt to control the fact of consciousness transfer fails for reasons unknown to them. And Lieutenant Colonel Kotov finds himself in the role of a penal soldier. The penal company is given a suicidal mission — to storm an enemy pillbox. The chances of carrying out the order are negligible, but failure of the assault will not be forgiven either. And this ordinary, on the scale of the front, operation will serve as a kind of detonator for a whole chain of tragic events in which the interests of powerful special services — those of the USSR and the German Reich — will collide. Much in the outcome of this fierce struggle will depend on an ordinary penal soldier.