Nobody knows where the Zone X came from - a deadly dangerous territory, swarming with abnormal phenomena. There are no monsters running around, no trophies are brought from there, and hunters do not make a living there. A secret government organization sends one research expedition to the Zone after another, but most often they do not return-or return but change imperceptibly and terribly. Can the new, twelfth expedition to the Zone achieve what the predecessors failed and to reveal the secrets of this accursed place? Leaving behind names and former lives, four women - a psychologist, a biologist, a topographer and an anthropologist - go to meet an alien, inhuman mystery ...
