The legends of ancient peoples taught and warned their descendants, but what will a stalker learn after hearing one of the countless legends of the Zone? Will he really settle down and, spitting on the damned earth, go home? As the experience of old-timers suggests, no. Even those who left soon returned, unable to resist the attractive brilliance of fame, the cloud of greed that obscured their consciousness and brought them to their knees by the will of the Zone. All stories begin the same way: a person comes here in search of the fulfillment of his desires, but in the end he becomes a puppet in the hands of the Omniscient and Omnipresent. Only the ending is different. Someone will disappear unknown in the vastness of anomalous fields teeming with mutants, and someone will leave with dignity, keeping in their hearts the unwritten laws of the stalker brotherhood until the last. The challenge to the irresistible force that decides the destinies of people like him will freeze in his eyes. All that will remain after him is another Legend of the Zone.