Six months have passed since the events described in the novel “Hide and Seek on the Axial Road”. Stalker Psycho fled to the Zone and no one knows where he is hiding. Biologist Ivan Sivertsev was stuck at a field research post for a long time. The businessman Pokatilov recovered from problems with the security forces and again began searching for a duplicator - and he was not alone. Everyone is unsuccessfully looking for the Psycho, he unexpectedly shows up himself and agrees to voluntarily hand over the duplicator to the scientist-swindler Taranenko. While Taranenko is preparing equipment to remove the duplicator from the cache, Psycho and Sivertsev are hiding in the Zone, but Pokatilov’s search team has already been sent for them, and the mysterious psi-monster is increasingly clearly indicating its presence and interest. Races and hide and seek again: who will outwit whom, who will get ahead of whom, and who will ultimately take possession of the coveted prize - look for answers to all these questions in the new novel by Vladimir Vasiliev, “Children of the Duplicator.”