The zone has become familiar, it has long been explored by stalkers, walked far and wide. Traps, anomalies, mutants, groups... everything is known and not surprising. A balance of power has been achieved. But something is happening in the Zone, subtly changing. Yegor Atilov, a stalker with a reputation, is hired to rob the first stalker bank. This is just a test: is it possible to find a loophole in the protection... But it turns out that everything is not so simple at all. What mysterious item is kept in the safe deposit box? Why does a large, dangerous group want to take it over? Now you can’t do it alone. I have to turn to an old friend for help, with whom I thought I had broken up forever. Egor is forced to first secretly pursue his enemies, and then, on the contrary, hide... all this in order to open the way to a new, unexplored part of the Zone.