The blind man is one of the most unlucky stalkers. However, it is he who is offered to become a guide by the famous scientist Dietrich Vandemeyer... Dietrich pays little and is prone to almost suicidal risks - but the Blind, in fact, has nothing to choose from. But soon this strange team will have to go on a very unusual case - investigating the mysterious disappearances of stalkers, again and again disappearing in the same area of the Zone. What happened to them? What death did they die? Nobody knows this. The only tip from Blind and Dietrich is the drunken ravings of a degenerate former stalker, who swears that in these very places there is an area especially rich in artifacts...