Late 1930s. In one of Moscow’s courtyards, a body is found—completely drained of blood. MURa (Moscow Criminal Investigation Department) lieutenants Dmitry Belkin and Evgeny Tatarin get on the garbage truck that had been used to transport the gruesome discovery. However, they don’t manage to talk to the drivers: one is found dead, and the second disappears. It seems someone is methodically removing unwanted witnesses…
Following the trail, the detectives come across a cache filled with many bloodless corpses and recall: similar attacks had already happened a few years earlier. Back then, the victims were young women. One of them survived by a miracle, and her terrifying testimony leads the investigators to an extremely unusual maniac…