The war-scorched steppes of the Rostov region are inhabited by outcasts, mutants and bandits. A soldier dying from a terrible alien disease is forced to convey secret information to the first person he meets - Stepan Starikov, a young man from an isolated communal settlement. They don’t live long with such information, and now Stepan is a target. The enemy is cunning, death has a thousand faces. The End of the World occurred in 1959, and it was called Desolation. The earth is under the rule of the Aliens, but the chance to take revenge, if you are reading these lines, still exists...