An expertly crafted adaptation based on the well-known work “Tokyo Zodiac” by Sōji Shimada, in which the author cleverly weaves the story of a talented Tokyo criminal with Russian realities.
“I don’t know how to deal with this.
My father was accused of the brutal murder of my neighbor’s wife and four daughters, the writer Ivolgin—at the dacha. Even though my father is already dead, this terrible accusation continues to tear at my heart. The method of the killings repeated the same horrifying, almost devilish ritual described in Ivolgin’s records. Investigators found the bodies of all the sisters, and each one was missing some part. Can the creature who did this be called a man? I refuse to believe that my father was capable of such a thing…”