Якоб Куизль is a threatening executioner from the ancient Bavarian small town Шонгау. Exactly his hands are manage a justice. Townspeople are afraid and avoid Якоба, considering executioner be as a devil.Bavaria, 1672 year. To Munich Advice going Twelve is workshop collection of main executioners of Bavaria. Invited on him and Куизля with all his family. But Advice was practically turned-blown off by the series of ominous murders, each of that reminded executing is asphyxiation, burial place alive, sinking in a sack, quartering. The habitants of Munich accused of everything go down in a city executioners: say of, all of it was created by them - and must for it be responsible. In order to avoid a mob law to protect the performers of law Якоб Куизль and his daughter Magdalena undertook.