The captain of the Russian special forces dies saving a young woman with a child from a drunk driver, but he gets a second chance at life by moving into the body of a young lieutenant who died from an accident. Summer 1937. Kyiv Military District, Newly made 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 41, 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. He is alone against the whole world, but he is Russian, and the Russians do not give up.