April 25, 1945. Exactly a week remains before the fall of the capital of the Third Reich. Kripo (criminal police) officer Wolf Lutwitz tries to catch a serial killer. An unknown person dresses up girls in fairy-tale characters' dresses and kills them at night in the Tiergarten park. Exactly the same crimes are taking place in the areas of Berlin occupied by the Red Army. Soviet investigator Sergei Komarovsky goes on the trail of a maniac. But he will have to get into the territory of the city, which is in the hands of the Nazis ...Flaming streets. Ruin. A few days before the surrender of Germany. Two people who hate each other are forced to team up to find the killer and prevent him from disappearing into the smoke of Berlin.