The autumn of 1888, which went down in the world history of crime as the “Autumn of the Knife”... In the London area of Whitechapel, the “invisible man”, the creepy and elusive Jack the Ripper, began to operate. Along with the police, journalists of all stripes eagerly took up the investigation, including a young employee of the Star newspaper, writing under the pseudonym Jeb. Filled with enthusiasm, he took on the role of a private detective, secretly dreaming of the glory of Sherlock Holmes. And first of all, he began to draw up a psychological portrait of a non-human criminal who turned out to be capable of such unprecedented atrocities. Using hidden evidence that the police did not take into account, the journalist finally got on the trail. The only thing that, in the excitement of the hunt, Jeb completely forgot to think about was what he would do when he found himself alone with the Ripper...