Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a vast, radiation-tainted zone was ruthlessly evacuated. Yet today it is teeming with life. This unique - travelogue introduces the people and places of an uncharted Chernobyl, r horn ruined Soviet-era factories in Belarus, to secretive "stalker" subcultures in Ukraine - and finally to the epicentre of the disaster, the irradiated heart of the nuclear power plant itself.