Landscape with a Monster

In 1863, in Rome, at the villa of Hecate, a dreadful crime took place: before the eyes of a mother driven mad with horror, a hairy forest monster tore apart her son… Thirty years later, the artist Julius von Klever created a cycle of paintings "Landscape with a Monster" inspired by that tragedy. These canvases had an almost hypnotic effect on people, awakening dark, hidden evil in their souls… In our days, crime reporter of the Press Center of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region, Ekaterina Petrovskaya, must unravel a web of equally terrible and mysterious crimes that have occurred in the family of show business star Felix Sanin. Katya tries to understand if there is a connection between Julius von Klever's paintings and the modern murders that shook the upscale village of Top in the Moscow region, where the Russian bohemia resides…