A stranger arrived from the side where no one had been seen for about twenty years. Not even mutants. Exactly there a bomb fell, burying Kirov’s hopes for the old life. A half-million until Judgment Day, Kirov shrank to the size of a small fortress-community of just thirty people. And only the chronicler of the fortress suspects that a new danger threatens the survivors—something carried by a creature that appeared from the epicenter of the explosion.