Nineteen years have passed since the Chernobyl accident, but not everything around is overgrown with wormwood. Mysterious phenomena still occur here, attracting tramps and adventurers. Having broken with his past, the former border guard Bird goes to the Exclusion Zone. At the same time, a group of scientists sounds the alarm: traces of an unknown experiment have been discovered in the Zone, threatening major troubles. At the crossroads of fate, different characters come together, united by a common goal - to survive the beginning of the apocalypse. Under the roar of gunfire, the splash of swamp water and gusts of cold wind, the autumn of 2005 comes into its own. The time is coming from which the survivors began to count down the hour of the second birth of the Zone.