Having fallen out of our time into 1941, he at first only wanted to go back to the future—until he saw with his own eyes what the Hitler occupiers were doing on Soviet soil. Trapped deep in the rear of the Wehrmacht with no hope of reaching his own people, he gathers a fighting unit from other encircled men to take revenge on the punitive forces and police.
Can the avengers become the crystallizing core of local resistance, the first spark of the all-people’s Patriotic War against the German-fascist invaders? Will the partisans hold out against the SS special detachments? Will the “man from somewhere” be able to change the course of history by cutting enemy communications at the decisive moment of the German offensive toward Moscow?