Blind was considered one of the unluckiest stalkers. And yet it is to him that the well-known scientist Dietrich Vandemeier offers the job of guide. Dietrich pays little and is inclined to almost suicidal risk — but Blind, essentially, has no choice.
This strange team is about to take on a very unusual case — the investigation of mysterious disappearances of stalkers who keep vanishing again and again in the same area of the Zone. What happened to them? What kind of death did they die? The only lead for Blind[\/b] and Dietrich is the drunken ravings of a degraded former stalker who swears that it is in these parts that there lies an area especially rich in artifacts…