He doesn't care where justice is administered! A forest melting in the autumn slush or bustling city streets with a million women's faces! He's on the hunt! But he is not just a criminal, driven only by a passion accessible only to him. His victims are the top of a huge iceberg of an indifferent machine, gathering its bloody harvest. Investigator for particularly important cases, Lieutenant Colonel Malinin, at the request of an old friend, looks at the case of the disappearance of women in the vicinity of Nikolsk. He sees a connection, but from the evidence he only has guesses, and he needs real facts to create an investigative team on this case. And while Malinin is looking for them from his office, terrible events are happening in Nikolsk.