In the Russian Visitation Zone, one of several marks of the contact of an alien reality with the nature of planet Earth, fatal changes are coming. Let the abnormal, but well-established, familiar order of things threaten to collapse. Both the fate of humanity and the fate of the entire planet, quite possibly, depend on the route that one person chooses in life. A stalker, whom his own fate brought again to the Zone. Stalkers are not born, they are made. But if real, then forever...