Everyone who enters the Zone loses their memory. Life begins with a clean slate according to new rules. The struggle for resources, battles with marauders and dangerous creatures is all that remains for people, because there is no way out from here. They don’t remember who they were before, but in the soul of every stalker lies a phantom memory of the Big World that is outside the Zone. They don’t believe, they don’t ask, and the only thing they’re afraid of is turning into toys of the mysterious forces that control the Zone and finally losing themselves. This was the case for many years until rumors spread that a man had appeared who could defeat the black stalkers and open the way to Big World... But no one, not even the chosen one himself, has any idea what is REALLY happening!