And again a fellow in the pre-war years. He was lying in an MRI machine, and suddenly he woke up in a hospital in 1938 in the alien body of an ordinary worker, a "flyer," struck by ball lightning. But, while he was not very sane, he managed to say such a thing that they came for him. The task before the main character is not easy: to help the country prepare for the upcoming Great Patriotic War, and comrade Yezhov will not thunder into a psychiatric hospital or "under the hammers."