After an anomalous storm that opened access to the previously impregnable North Zone, bartender Val gathers an expedition of desperate vagrants. Its beginning was laid by the veteran Fan who died on the threshold of the bar. There is a lot of money at stake and... something mysterious, hidden on the other side of the Pripyat River. In search of the truth, Val finds himself in the midst of a brewing catastrophe caused by the intervention of the special services, the Mercenary Syndicate and the private corporation Tesla Corp. The game has begun.