An experienced stalker, Jager, couldn’t even imagine that the team he led through the Empty Lands would cowardly abandon him to die in the Zone’s mutilated, with a broken leg, with no weapon and no means of survival. However, his spirit turned out to be stronger than death. Jager tries to escape the Empty Lands, and only burning hatred and the thirst for revenge against those who doomed him to a monstrous death keep him desperately clinging to life.
But the path to salvation won’t be easy: helpless victim in the infected territory is waiting for the fierce spawn of the Zone—bloodsuckers, pseudo-giants, burers, zombies… And even if Jager manages to break through the anomalous fields and get out of the Zone alive, will he remain the same—or will the incredible suffering he endured turn him into someone entirely different?