“Metro 2033” by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story has inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro Universe 2033, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! They spent twenty years in an underground shelter, fleeing from radiation and the mutants it generated, afraid to come to the surface. For twenty years they lived like rats, hiding in holes and eating the scraps of civilization. Fate itself could not bear their suffering and gave the residents of Naberezhnye Chelny a chance to get out of the dead city, find a new place to live and feel like people again. One of the refugees is Azat, who carries the burden of responsibility for his wife and two sons on his shoulders. He hits the road with everyone else, hoping to give his family a better future. However, the smile of fate turns into an evil grin: where to go if the whole world has perished, and all around you there are only wastelands scorched by atomic flame? Will they be able to build a new life on the ashes of our houses?