The real boy Tolik achieved his goal: he got into the Zone, passed his “registration” in Gena Torts’ brigade and counted on a sweet life. And what? Know, rob stalkers, loot artifacts, kill mutants. But things are not going well for the brigade. Yes, here the Korean, who had also settled in the Landfill, finally managed to unite the lone stalkers and repel the bandits. At the height of the battle, the military intervened - so it didn’t seem like much to either the honest men or the looters. But Tolik eventually found a significant cache for the brigade - an abandoned secret laboratory. The scientists have left these places, but the result of their experiments remains - and none of Torts’s gang can imagine what they will face in the near future... And the stalker Blind again failed to get involved: Gosha Karom, the owner of the Zvezda Hotel, needed help . Kary asks Blind to visit the Zone one last time and hide there until better times a bag of incriminating evidence about one important big shot in uniform. The big shot is also not asleep - a hunt has been announced for Blind...