Stalker Algorithm returns to the Moscow Region Zone after prolonged treatment. During this time, everything has changed on the damned territory - and nothing changes: the military, looters, entire clans and desperate loners live by their own laws and try to impose these laws on everyone around them. Mutants follow newfound instincts and destroy anything that moves. Corporations are still interested in developments based on abnormal energies, which means that the commercial value of artifacts is not reduced. But if not for the forced help of an old comrade, the Algorithm would have calmly passed both the showdown and the khabar. Because in the suburbs he did not return for this. He needs information about what happened to Vera - the girl he had to leave six months ago in the middle of the forbidden Zone in a very difficult situation.