Another injection. Arthur barely survived. Obsessive thoughts were spinning in his head, thoughts about that unfortunate man his brother had run over, about their dead father, about their addiction... It seemed that his body, like his mind, was rotting from the inside. The day came when there was no other way out except to send them to the so-called "Exclusion Zone". Sam, their old acquaintance, agreed to accept two unlucky semblances of people into his brigade. The Exclusion Zone turned out to be not the place they had imagined. The image dissipated, and with it the hope for a bright future...