Alexandra Gribko

In dystopian near future Chloe, an apt mechatronics engineer, lives a life of a recluse in her shop, and tries desperately to make ends meet by hunting stray androids at night. Meeting Isaac, a naive survivor of her last assault, changes her life... Or, does it?

Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...