A nuclear explosion over Areal during the operation “Disinfection,” which supposedly destroyed the owners of compromising material among the highest state officials, led to a catastrophe. The anomalous territory is rapidly expanding, and living conditions there have become even more difficult.
The artifact owners from Areal are trying to get there, unable to resist the Call. But anyone who crosses the border of the Green Zone is doomed to experience Brain Itch—appearing when one moves away from Areal. Areal has become a state within a state, where criminal groups set their own laws, and a unit led by Major Pletnev-Medved—declared a criminal—is trying to survive, with a large reward offered for capturing him.