Soft is a professional hacker with a dark past and a foggy future. Chasing thrills and easy money, he gets involved in a dubious adventure—after which a hunt begins for him. As a result of a bold hack, he has more than just money in his hands, as the hacker thinks. In the program code written on a flash drive, a key is hidden to opportunities that will allow this world to be changed.
Hiding from his pursuers, he is forced to flee into the Zone of Exclusion, not realizing that even there, beyond the Perimeter, he has become one of the pawns in the Great Game. And in the Zone, the Game continues. Everyone is hunting him—bandits, groups, and mercenaries. Now he has to do more than survive: he must manage to deal with the pursuers before they reach him themselves. Soft will have to visit places even the most clever stalkers haven’t gone, solve the mystery of the mysterious “Suggestor,” and apply his abilities where, at first glance, there seems to be no way to use them.