Seven Souvenirs

One should not read someone else's diaries. They can turn your life into a nightmare…

What can an apartment of a writer, vacant since the day of his death, tell us? Who inhabits the pages of his unpublished drafts? What if it is there that the fears and thoughts of bloodthirsty maniacs lie in wait, just waiting for someone careless to set them free…

The famous writer Benjamin Volkov left behind a novel about a Leningrad serial killer from the 1980s. The author was present at the interrogations of the detained and described in detail each of the seven murders committed, recounting the experiences the maniac felt during the bloody crimes. The story of the “souvenirs” that the killer took from each of his victims looked particularly cynical…

Documentary filmmaker Nikolai Krasnov is preparing a film about Volkov. In search of exclusive material, he gets close to the daughter of the deceased. But soon he realizes that she is withholding something. Instead, the woman suggests that the director work independently in the writer's home archive…

Krasnov anticipates a sensation and doesn’t even suspect what awaits him in the apartment where Volkov died, and where no outsider has set foot since his death…