Soft is a professional hacker with a dark past and a foggy future. Chasing sharp sensations and easy money, he gets involved in a dubious adventure—after a daring hack, not only money ends up in Soft’s hands, as he himself thinks. In the program code saved on a flash drive, a key is hidden to possibilities that will allow changing this world. Hiding from the hunt, the hacker is forced to flee to the Zone of Exclusion, not realizing that he has already become one of the pieces on a chessboard being played beyond the Perimeter. And in the Zone, the game continues. Soft will have to visit places even the most cunning stalkers haven’t gone before, solve the riddle of the mysterious “Suggestor,” and apply his abilities where finding a use for them seems impossible at first glance.