flying home on a jet plane; lucky to get out of St. Petersburg leaving a trail of bodies behind; he's not suspected of anything & the cops think a dangerous killer is coming into the city fom Chernobyl so the investigation shuts down for fear of radiation contamination [no one's going into the ghost city complex where the weird unknown artists live; Eli's girl w/ brain cancer [a cute blonde who emails Eli naked pictures of herself ****** w/ peeling scabs he uses to decide his palette's colors - red, green yellow & black - the colors of the endless pus running from both her eyes; she wears shades but the sun never shines over Chernobyl; the city walls glowing green at night when one or more will drop dead where he or she stands; u'd think something undead came back to life & was haunting the dark but ghosts don't have such clumsy, noisy footsteps;