The zone hides many secrets, sometimes intuition and logic help to find them out... And a stalker nicknamed Blind, unexpectedly for himself, turns into a real detective. Having got out of the Perimeter after the events in the Valley of Bones, Blind finds himself in the center of a complex operation, which was started by someone... then from the owners of the Zone outside its boundaries. Fleeing from persecution, Blind changes his nickname and goes deep into the exclusion territory. He will have to solve a crime in a stalker camp, get involved in a gang clash, find a killer, get an unusual artifact, get along with the Chemist and a Fistful... Strange things are happening in the Zone, hidden forces have come into conflict, and the hero, along with two stalkers, finds himself on the front line of this undeclared war .