Our time. The pride of the Northern Fleet, the Russian nuclear submarine Dmitry Novgorodsky, sets out on a mission—to patrol the mid-Atlantic. An ordinary mission, if not for the presence on board of a military specialist with some хитрая apparatus. The high command ordered that a certain secret experiment be carried out at sea. And they carried it out…
The cold summer of 1942, in the midst of the Second World War. There is no way back. No matter which shore you approach—everywhere is foreign. Worst of all, even their own Soviet side would not stand on ceremony with the crew. And the nuclear submarine cruiser Dmitry Novgorodsky unwillingly becomes a kind of Nautilus, a homeless wanderer of the seas. But it is hard to remain indifferent when your grandfathers and great-grandfathers are fighting and dying nearby.
And very soon, nearby, a requiem will sound for convoy PQ-17. The crew decides to begin combat operations against the fascist bastards. A nuclear reactor providing virtually unlimited cruising range and complete autonomy, excellent acoustic equipment, Vodopad rocket torpedoes, the latest MANPADS—all this makes Dmitry Novgorodsky a formidable weapon in the fight against the fleet of the Third Reich. The submarine cruiser begins a new combat patrol. Or rather, continues the one already begun…