If you find yourself in the Exclusion Zone once, it will never let you go. So the former stalker Shtopor, who has long left the vicinity of Chernobyl, decides to return to pick up the swag he once left behind from the cache on Cordon. Much has changed in the Zone during his absence, so Corkscrew hires two experienced stalkers - Inok and Huron - as guides. They do not yet know that they have signed up for a deadly enterprise in which they will be confronted by the special services, the military and the legendary stalker group “Monolith”. And Corkscrew himself has a heavy and dark secret, which is more dangerous than all the mutants and insidious traps of the Zone...