When a young investigator Володя Сосновский on the dictate of family was exiled a little rather from capital temptations - to Odesa, he and could not suppose, that in this seashore city his fate will change steeply. Only he proceeds to work, as in Odesa begin to find the dead bodies of rich folks. One, second, third. They are disfigured to impossibility, but main - at all the fingers are cut. There is panic in city, Odesa is convinced, that this matter of hands of killer on to the name Cannibal. Володя together with an old investigator Полипиным proceeds to his search. Сосновский and could not present, what role this history is played by girl Таня, that he fell in love sincerely.