The Zone doesn't like random people, but it won't let go of those it has accepted just like that. A stalker nicknamed Kremen one day decided to return to ordinary life - he left the Zone with two friends, sold his swag and again became Alexei Kozhevnikov, senior foreman of the factory repair team, loving husband and father. But the Zone cruelly reminded itself, and Alexey was forced to go on his last journey in order to save his ten-year-old son from death... His enemies or comrades - the Zone knows how to change the poles of good and evil - are people, each of whom has his own goal in this dangerous journey: an intelligence operative, a young businessman and a bandit who got involved with cultists...