"HAPPINESS FOR ALL, FOR NOTHING, AND LET NO ONE LEAVE HURT!!!" These words were uttered by stalker Radrick Shewhart at the bottom of the pit, finding a Golden Ball that fulfills any desires. So ends the famous novel of the Strugatsky brothers "Picnic on the sidelines." But what happened next? For more than forty years, since the release of the cult work, fans of Russian science fiction have been asking themselves this question. And finally, Dmitry Sillov wrote a novel that is a direct continuation of the story of Red Schuchart. What awaits the famous stalker after he returns from the Zone to his native Harmont? How will his expressed desire affect the future of the distant Chernobyl exclusion zone and the fate of the Sniper, well known to fans of the Stalker, Kremlin 2222 and Rosa Mirov series?