Journalist Marcus Cole dies in a mysterious car crash in Washington D.C. — only to wake up three years earlier in the body of Viktor Androv, a junior political analyst in the fictional Eastern European nation of Valdoria. Armed with knowledge of the future, Marcus knows that Valdoria's upcoming election will hand power to a pro-Russian strongman backed by an insidious media empire. He also knows about a secret U.S. program offering ,600 'self-deportation bonuses' to immigrants — a program that will be weaponized to ethnically cleanse Valdoria's pro-Western intellectuals. With a ticking clock, no allies, and a system in his head that rewards him for exposing lies, Marcus must dismantle the propaganda machine from the inside before Valdoria falls into darkness. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes his death was no accident — and the conspirators who killed him are hunting Viktor Androv too.