In a cargo train container, the body of a young woman is found. There are no signs of violence on her—she died from starvation. The unusual case is assigned to Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gurov. He pulled the archive files on similar strange deaths and soon discovered that almost all these crimes follow the same scenario: first, the women would meet an attractive man; then they would disappear; after that, they were found dead. A serial maniac? But how does he deal with his victims? Gurov had to work hard to solve it—yet once uncovered, it became a real shock for the operational officers…