Space reconnaissance Egor Pluzhnikov, nicknamed Plyukh, could not even imagine that, returning from another flight, he would be attacked by an unknown force and in a lifeboat would make an emergency landing not on the peaceful, flourishing Earth of the 22nd century, but under the crimson “dome” of the mysterious Zone , which is an incredible “cocktail” of pieces of parallel worlds, dotted with deadly anomalies and inhabited by both evil monsters and people calling themselves stalkers, whose main principle is: every man for himself.