This world is familiar to you. A world of stalkers and bandits, marauders and military men, anomalies and artifacts. Surrounded by the Perimeter is a cruel world where wolf laws rule. This is the Zone. The legendary Cartographer has disappeared, and three stalkers go in search of him, but fall into a deadly trap. To get out, the stalkers will have to make a dangerous journey through the Raskol and Mercury Lake, from which no one has ever returned. They will meet a ghost train and end up in Vivisector's lair. The sectarians of the Black Brotherhood are also not asleep - well-trained killers who are ready to do anything for the sake of their strange, mysterious goals. The Cartographer is being hunted by two large groups at once... What secret does this man have? And is he a man or something else? The old world. Old heroes. New evil!