The lieutenant of a special forces unit, Vyacheslav Petrov, is destined to go into the army and not return—also to die and be resurrected from the dead.
The lieutenant is betrayed by his superiors and ends up in captivity with bandits. The impressions will be enhanced—guaranteed. The bandit gives the officer an incomprehensible drink, and Vyacheslav Petrov escapes from captivity by moving into the past—into a distant past. He inhabits the bodies of fallen warriors. Having fought for the creation of a new Russia, Petrov is betrayed, ruining the show at his own execution while in captivity; he thrashes through other bodies again and again. No matter who our main hero fought for—be it a Roman legionary, a German reitar, or a Greek hoplite—the outcome is always the same: he dies all the time.
Now Vyacheslav has ended up in World War I as a Russian officer—what will happen to him is what he has yet to find out.