There were two months left before Operation Fairway when Sergei Shvedov was expelled from the SBU. In desperation, he goes to the Zone and finds himself in a detachment of mercenaries. Now he is the stalker Swede, he has excellent weapons and new friends. Thanks to his courage and military ingenuity, the Swede earns authority in the detachment and moves into the closed group “Monolith”, which brought together the best fighters. And soon Major Degtyarev appears in the Zone. The Swede is watching him from afar, but one day they will have to come face to face. No one knows how this meeting will end...