“I'm afraid, doctor. I'm terribly afraid. There's nothing you can do for me. Nobody can do anything.” Erwan Dante-Legan lives among hallucinations, among imaginary snakes and real murders. The newly-minted Dante descended into Hell - and now the road to light is closed to him forever. He exists in an everlasting horror. Fantasies drive him crazy, push him to strange actions and eventually lead him to Building 38 - to a psychiatric clinic for seriously ill patients, where desperate Dante meets his savior - psychiatrist Susanna Lohman, to whom he can finally entrust his nightmares and free himself. However, why real brutal murders? What's going on all over Europe is so reminiscent of Dante's hallucinations? Who kills young girls? Three people rush in pursuit of the answer: the commissioner of the Parisian prefecture of police, Suzanne Loman and a talented journalist who has been tracking down a dangerous maniac for many years. Who will reveal the truth - and what is the reward for doing so? There will be no clear answers in Regis Descott's psychological thriller "Warding 38". And it is unknown whether the ending will be happy.