Retired physics teacher Ivan Yakovlevich Brecht dies in our time and is transferred to the body of a young guy from a German village near Omsk. On the calendar is 1932 and the Holodomor begins. Together with relatives, GG decides to leave the house and move to the Far East, where railway workers are required at KBZhD. Japan's Manchukuo marathon arranges constant provocations on the railway, forcing the USSR to sell it as cheaply as possible.