Three years after saying goodbye to his friends and returning to his native world, Capon rarely remembers that he used to be a stalker. He’s become a programmer again—Andrey Kozyukhov, or, as the writer Vasyuta once called him, a “hacker in the good sense of the word.” But there are no former stalkers. Especially now that Capon’s current job is directly connected to the logical block given to him by the cyber Zane, thanks to which the hacker and his colleagues created a supercomputer with artificial intelligence—IRu. And some strange, тревожні events make Kozyukhov realize that the Zone of the North hasn’t gone anywhere: there are too many bears around the secret settlement; his faithful off-road vehicle suddenly fails its brakes, which almost costs him his life; and sometimes it feels like he’s reading other people’s thoughts… But the worst thing is that several people at once—including Andrey himself—start dreaming the exact same dream down to every detail: an explosion at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which is right next to them. Isn’t it time to remember an old saying: “Beware of the Danaians, bearing gifts”?