URSS, 1983. O herói cosmonauta soviético Vladimir Veshnyakov traz uma criatura alienígena para a terra... em seu próprio corpo. No laboratório secreto da cidade de regime, a neurofisiologista Tatyana Klimova tenta salvar o astronauta do monstro, descobrindo que ela está experimentando mais do que um interesse profissional em seu paciente.
In contemporary Russia there exists a hidden world - a world of magic and enchantment. Magicians have to hide from the nonmag society surrounding them, a society they are disdainful of, some even hostile towards. The Master of the Guard of the Supreme Council of Magic and Enchantment, Bakhrushin, loses his magic abilities and must not only avoid revealing this, but also prevent the war brewing between the magicians and the nonmagi.
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.