[1][2][3][4][5] Like the original series it was adapted from, although with the original script rewritten to better fit the Soviet era, the series combines elements of the genres speculative fiction and police procedural, featuring a present-day police captain from the Moscow City Police (played by Pavel Derevyanko) who wakes up in 1979 as his deceased father in the days of the Soviet Union after being hit by a motorist while in pursuit of a criminal in 2011.

[6] In 2011, Mikhail Soloviev Jr. (Pavel Derevyanko) is a captain of the Moscow City Police, who for three years, has been on the hunt of a violent maniac known as 'Red', responsible for the murders of young women around the capital.

In the ensuing operation to arrest 'Red', however, Soloviev's partner is killed, and he is hit by a motorist while chasing him.

However, he then wakes up in hospital in the body of his father, Mikhail Soloviev Sr., a captain of the Moscow Municipal Militsiya in 1979.

However, with his comatose body still in 2011, he can occasionally hear the conversations that his relatives, colleagues, and the doctors caring for have from the present day.