The Axe Man

a post-apocalyptic landscape in ‘The Contaminated Zone’ treaded on by the ‘liquidators’ - a term used to refer to the people who were hired, in effect sacrificed, to clean up the radioactive mess resulting from the accident at the nuclear plant in Chernobyl in 1986. Exposure to radiation condemns people to isolation the way we are all condemned to an isolated life - we came alone, we will go alone.