Thirty years of studying the mysterious Zone X have not produced results. Expeditions sent there return with empty hands at best—or they don’t return at all. A secret government organization tasked with uncovering the Zone’s secrets is stuck in place, while its employees either slowly go mad from hopelessness or—subtly and terrifyingly—change under its influence. Now Zone X has gone on the offensive, and people have nothing to oppose it with. In the final volume of the trilogy about Zone X, the mysteries of the past and the present are revealed to find the answer to the question: does planet Earth have a future?