Some go there for artifacts hoping to get rich as soon as possible. Others are drawn by a thirst for knowledge. Still others dream of reaching the wish-granter and preventing a catastrophe… But what brought six teenage kids into the Zone of alienation? It isn’t the grim romance that lures them. Kids are not meant to be here, yet they have a completely different, only understandable to themselves goal. They aren’t like stalkers: they’re not ready to kill, they won’t fight each other for profit, and in general they think differently.
But the Zone does not distinguish between those who crossed its boundaries. It breaks them, changes them—forever.