They are called stalkers. Adventure-seekers and profit-hunters who slip through bands of obstacles and checkpoints manned by heavily armed peacekeepers into the forbidden anomalous Zone that formed around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the early 21st century — the territory where monstrous creatures dwell and people are waiting to be caught in lethal traps. Hемуль is one of them. The truth is that, unlike the rest, he can not only penetrate the Zone, but also return from it. Not surprising, then, that it was precisely him who was tasked with organizing a safari in the Zone for wealthy foreign tourists. What happened next was astounding. When both the military and semi-mutant stalkers and ordinary mutants — and even the mythical Masters of the Zone — began to actively hunt the group, it became clear that something else was going on. And his “tourists,” it seems, came here not for thrills at all…