Those who think that nothing is sacred to stalkers are mistaken! At least, this is what journalist Ivan Kopeikin, a great expert on the Death Zone and its inhabitants, thinks. True, the stalkers themselves do not think about such things, but they are not averse to breaking out of the Five Lands. There is only one remedy for this - the “Schultz tablet” - but it is not so easy to get. This ingenious invention further stirred up the already troubled universe of the Zone. The warring groups of stalkers, the Barrier Army and the most terrible creation of this crazy world, Technos, came together in a fierce confrontation. Will the stalker Leshem, his girlfriend Lera and Kopeikin himself manage to get out of the general brawl alive? Will they break through the Barrier? Will Professor Schultz's invention actually free them, or... kill them?!