Talented city surgeon Artem never expected that, after stepping in for an unfamiliar girl, the most tragic way possible he would awaken in the body of a young zemstvo doctor, Ivan Palych Petrov.
A county is a terrifying backwater—and so is the hospital that still has to be “built up.” There are no medicines, no anesthesia, no disinfection—there’s nothing at all! But there are patients, and they must be treated—that’s what Artem, as a doctor, is for.
The young man challenges everything… and everyone.
And by the way, it’s 1916. World War I… The Russian monarchy begins to crack along every seam. And in the village, revolutionaries have appeared…