Five teenage girls disappeared in and around the city. To catch the serial killer, a special group was created, one of whose units was headed by Chief Inspector Alan Banks. They caught the maniac by accident, and during his arrest he was killed. It would seem that the evil has been punished, the police have freed the streets from the nightmare, but Banks continues to be tormented by doubts: how could Terence Payne’s wife, after a year of marriage, not even suspect what her husband was doing in the basement of their house?