The captain of the Russian special forces dies, saving a young woman with a child from a drunk driver. Everything seems to be over, life is over, but he gets a second chance, finding himself in the body of a young lieutenant who died as a result of an accident. Summer 1937. The Kyiv military district, the newly minted lieutenant Skuratov takes command of a platoon of fighters. He has only four years to make notorious thugs out of his fighters, and if he succeeds, then in the hot summer of 1941 the vaunted German Brandenburg will wash with blood in the forests of Ukraine and Belarus, and the forest brothers will become mannequins for practicing the skills of the special forces of the Red Army.