The late 1970s. In a large Siberian city, brutal murders of four young women happen one after another. The visible signs of the crimes are very similar: all the victims are tied with the same towels, and all are killed by blows to the head with a heavy object. Operatives led by Militia Captain Alexey Razin assume it’s clearly the work of a serial killer. For Soviet reality, this is unheard of! Every resource is thrown into the search for the maniac. The detectives work without sleep or rest. But everything is in vain… This continues until Razin notices one unusual fact—one that, many years earlier, had connected the fates of those students.
It was quite recent. And it seems that from the time when the concept of honor and total devotion to their dangerous profession made Soviet militiamen true heroes—an entire era has passed…