A lot has changed in Harmont since the stalker Redrick Shewhart took the “Golden Ball” out of the Zone... Red is gone, Gutalin died, Dick Noonan left the city. “Black splashes”, “pacifiers” and “pins” are already bringing new stalkers to swag buyers. The entire shadow business has been taken over by the criminal empire of Karl Tsmyg, a stalker nicknamed Dwarf, who once married the beautiful Dina Burbridge. The daughter of the late Gutalin, Sazha, has grown up, emigrant Jan Kwiatkowski, nicknamed Jackpot, has returned to the city, Dick Noonan’s daughter Melissa, posing as a journalist, has arrived, the clan of the drug lord Stiletto Panini has gained strength. But most importantly, the Zone itself has changed. This is no longer just a deadly place where desperate guys went in search of swag. One day, the Zone, like a compressed spring, fired, immediately changing everything in Harmont and putting the heroes in the need to survive. The Zone intricately intertwined the fates of the Dwarf, Jackpot, Soot, Monkey and many others. Betrayal and death, love and hate, drug mafia wars and anomalies of the Zone... And only those who survived will finally be able to understand - who are they to each other? Their own. Or – strangers?