About the book: 2018 / Post-apocalypse, close in meaning to stalker The story is told in four storylines that intersect with each other. About a week in real time. The first is the story of the misadventures of those marked who just got to the other side. The second is a story about the exit of the tramp Tikhoy, desperately looking for income, since he is running out of money, and in his “infantry” (movable infantry armor based on an exoskeleton), the battery is almost zero. Therefore, he takes on a desperate task - to get close to Kemerovo and photograph its outskirts. The third one tells about teenage settlers sent by the village elder to a kind of test. All three stories intersect with each other and all three lead to Vasko, Anna and Vadim in military camps on both sides of the Hole.