Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman`s uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn`t gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark & empty, & the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. After a perplexing conversation with the terrified man, who turns out to be a wine smuggler, & on recovering from the resulting hangover, Igor comes to an unbelievable conclusion: he has found his way back to 1957 Kiev. & it isn`t the innocent era his mother & her friends have so sentimentally described. As he travels between centuries, his life becomes more & more complicated. The unusual gardener who lives in his mother`s shed keeps disappearing, his best friend has blackmailed the wrong people, & Igor has fallen in love with a married woman in a time before he was born. With his mother`s disapproval at his absences growing, & his adventures in each time frame starting to catch up with him, Igor has to survive the past if he wants any kind of future.