Stalker

A Stalker guides a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a physics professor (Nikolai Grinko) through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known as the "Zone", where deep-seated desires are granted. The trio evades the Zone's military guards by following a train through the gate, riding through the Zone's vast wilderness on a railway work car. As they travel, the Writer and Professor discuss their reasons for wanting to visit the Room, a place where their innermost desires are supposedly granted.