What could be more familiar to a guide than accompanying a group of scientists through the anomalous Zone? However, this time everything went wrong from the very beginning: the route had to be changed, and the behavior of the scientists arouses suspicion, and even some dubious personalities keep coming across along the route... And the most important oddity is the instructions given to his guide by this manual: if necessary, he has the right to destroy the entire group. But what lies behind this unspoken order and what is the threat of its implementation to the conductor himself?