Redrick Shewhart wished “happiness for everyone, freely, and let no one leave offended.” But his desire turned into great grief for the residents of Harmont. The city is cordoned off by military units, fenced off from the rest of the world with barbed wire. People with signs of mutations are sent to laboratories for scientific research. And, on top of that, in the ruins of the old plant, one of the most mysterious anomalies of the Zone, “Tramp Dick,” has again become active, threatening to throw the transcendent horror of another world into the human world. But not only invincible evil comes from the other world. A “brother of death” appears in the Harmont Zone, a stalker named Sniper. Mortally wounded, but undefeated... Can he survive and help Shewhart return the citizens of Harmont to their city? A difficult question, and a very difficult task even for experienced stalkers. After all, their powerful enemy has long decided that only one fate awaits the disobedient: no one will leave the Zone alive.