Katya Petrovskaya – a crime reporter for the press center of the Main Internal Affairs Department – is disappointed: there is no mystery in the new case. Roman Pepelyaev shot nine people in the center of the city because he went insane.
But why, after the massacre witnessed by a whole crowd, does he feel no emotions at all?
Neither satisfaction, nor remorse, nor apathy. And he is so indifferent to his fate that, even being in a psychiatric clinic, he continues to attack people?
Moreover, the aggression is triggered by young men of a certain appearance.
Katya and Colonel Gushchin, who believe in neither God nor the devil, clearly see some devilry here. And, apparently, not without good reason…