It happens that an unspoken word, an unmade deed, affects the future much more tragically than mistakes made. So the unfinished operation on Mars to destroy the chronogen led to a deadlock in the development of mankind. A little more, and the Earth Regulation will outlive itself, which means that it will be destroyed .. The culprit, who by then became the Commissioner of Equilibrium, Stanislav Panov decides to go back in time, find a copy of "himself" and, having given this Stas the necessary knowledge, persuade him to help complete the case. However, the mission is complicated by the fact that now too influential forces are interested in preventing humanity from turning from the road to the abyss.