The Zone doesn’t like random people, but those it has accepted won’t be released just like that. A stalker nicknamed Kremen once decided to return to a normal life: with two friends he left the Zone, sold contraband, and became once again Aleksey Kozhevnikov—a senior master at a factory repair brigade, a loving husband, and a father. But the Zone cruelly reminded him of itself, and Aleksey is forced to go on his last run in order to save his ten-year-old son from death… His enemies or allies—because the Zone knows how to swap the poles of good and evil—are people, each with their own goal on this dangerous journey: an intelligence operative, a young businessman, and a thug who has linked up with sectarians…