Every year, someone near us suddenly disappears. Where do they go? The world the people who vanish from Earth end up in is the Flat Plane. This place resembles Strugatsky’s Zone. An endless, hostile to humans wasteland of another world with its own rules and physical laws—filled with deadly dangerous phenomena and bizarre creatures. The weak it breaks and destroys; the strong it hardens and makes even stronger. People cast here by fate can survive only with the help of a feudal lord—either a drunk homeless man or a superhero; a person who can plot safe routes from oasis to oasis, obtain the items the settlers need, and constantly outwit Death itself. Suddenly something changes—feudal wars begin…