The Secret Liquidator

1954. A small provincial town of Kachinsk is flooded with convicts released on amnesty. One day on the outskirts of the town, a hardened criminal nicknamed Buba dies during a police operation. Having broken free from an ambush, he encounters a knife from someone unknown. Captain of the Criminal Investigation Department Andrei Nekrasov suspects that a mysterious avenger dealt with the recidivist. Soon, three more people die one after the other. Moreover, the last one is found with clear signs of torture. Who is settling scores with people who appear to be unrelated? Nekrasov investigates the victims and literally chills from the horror of the revealed truth…

From the city streets — to the archives, from the victims' apartments — to the forest ambushes. The working days of Soviet detectives are complicated by the recently declared amnesty, under which thousands of people who only know how to rob and kill have been released from prison…