Timur Shulga is the youngest stalker in the Zone. An unexpected and terrible death threatens his older brother - no one here has ever died such a death, and Timur, who has already left the lands of Alienation for a year, decides to return to try to save him. He doesn’t yet know that all this is connected with the so-called “slug” - a very expensive, mysterious and dangerous artifact. There are only three “slugs” in the Zone. No one saw the anomaly that gave birth to them, except for a few stalkers who have been dead for a long time. After all, it is located in the middle of the Burying Ground and the path to it is blocked by the Jaws, which have claimed the lives of many seekers of easy money. And in order to save his brother, Timur will have to go there.