Doctor August Vernon liked to say: “Two years ago in the capital, a girl killed her parents, who forbade her to study music. These are the types of cases that interest me.” And as if by order, winter brings a serial killer to provincial Everfort. The doctor begins an investigation, but so far he only has questions: a prostitute, a newspaper editor, a pie delivery girl - is there really a connection between them? And what connects them to capital crime? Perhaps the great musician and composer Eric Stoltz knows the answers to them - who is not at all what he seems.