After brutal torture, the maniac killed Callie McCormick and buried her naked body in the mountains. But he made a mistake: she did not die and with the last of her strength she was able to attract the attention of a young couple who called the police. Taking up the investigation, detective Alyssa Wyatt comes to the conclusion with horror: Callie is the latest victim of an elusive psychopath who has been terrorizing New Mexico for many years, leaving no traces. But Alyssa still doesn’t understand the main thing. By leading the investigation team, she doomed herself to the fate of the next - and key - victim. And the point is not at all that the detective is zealously hunting a serial killer and poses a threat to him. This is just a happy coincidence of circumstances, thanks to which he finally found her - the one who will crown his bloody path. The fact is that he knows her very well, although she does not know him; he remembers that she has a long-standing debt to him, and she can repay it only through monstrous suffering - for herself and her family...