Tsarskoye Selo is an ideal place for a Sunday excursion or a wedding photo shoot. And at the same time - for a brutal ritual murder... On an early June morning, a terrible sight met the eyes of a couple of cyclists: the Tsar Bath, full of muddy rusty water, and in it the bloody corpse of an elderly man without a face with a brand burned on his chest. And next to it on the wall is a message containing a hint of the name of the next victim... Investigator Valery Samsonov must solve this code as soon as possible, otherwise another innocent person will die. But Valery is only a man, he makes mistakes, and the maniac kills again. There is only one chance left to understand what the monster wants, devouring the faces of its victims...