Journalist and political strategist, accustomed to large-scale projects and generous budgets, a lover of bonfire and songs, turns out to be in the past - in the spring of 1918 in Harbin... Now he is a former front-line soldier, attached by an influential relative to the protection of the Consulate General. Political passions are raging around - the Russian revolution and world war are in full swing, the Bolsheviks have already taken power, White Guard volunteer detachments are emerging in Manchuria, and Vice Admiral Kolchak is announced in Harbin - the situation is more and more explosive every day...