It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.

米哈伊尔是一位年轻的商人，凭着一股狠劲，他迅速取得了成功。他的生活充斥着一系列的商务会议，谈判和公关，根本无暇顾及个人生活，思考除了生意以外的事情。因为从小在孤儿院长大的父亲一直教育他，不能有爱，这会是致命的软肋。最近米哈伊尔与合伙人在一项地产开发项目中遇到了两位“挖掘者”的阻拦，他们要求项目暂停，直到他们完成挖掘被掩埋红军战士的遗体为止。为了摆脱纠缠，米哈伊尔假意跟随其中一人进入地下防空洞，谁知阴差阳错，他居然穿越到了二战期间……作为旁观者，身处战场的米哈伊尔并不会遭遇危险，士兵们也无法感知他的存在。就这样，在一次又一次短暂的穿越中，米哈伊尔看到了人间大爱，看到了那些为了祖国未来而无畏牺牲的无数小我，并且经由线索，他发现那些穿越回去接触到的英雄，居然是他的祖辈。

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.