Harmont Visiting Area. 2020s. The owner of the Monlabs corporation, Dumont, is overwhelmed by the idea of creating a new life that does not yet exist on Earth, and is confident that the Zone will help him turn into a demiurge. Dumont's tool becomes Launitz - an unsuccessful director, a patient in a psychiatric clinic and a bankrupt, whom the mafia puts on the "counter". The memory of a stalker who went missing in the Zone, who most likely managed to find the most mysterious artifact - the “death lamp,” is implanted into his brain. Together with the Monlabs mercenaries and the wife of the missing stalker, Launitz goes to the “heart” of the Zone along the most dangerous route. Meanwhile, alien life begins to emerge from the Zone into the city, transforming what it can subjugate and destroying everything else. And only Launitz, a man who is a double mystery, is able to stop her.