A small sleepy town lost among endless forests and swamps. Nothing interesting happens here; life flows slowly and steadily; all the residents somehow know one another; and the most discussed news in the last few years is a forest fire. That’s where Maxim Vasiliev has found refuge—an ex-investigator who is now a carpenter, joiner, cook, cleaner, and a single father raising a fifteen-year-old daughter.
The quiet routine of this sleepy town will be broken when a mysterious maniac appears—one who kills women for cryptic rituals. Maxim will have to help the police figure out what’s going on: find the maniac and, at the same time, determine what relation Eliza—the new teacher at the local school—has to all this. Who is she: a random witness, or is something more tying her to the victims? What secrets does she hide behind the locked door of her apartment? And all of this must be done very quickly, because the killer is already close…