In the mid-1980s, a series of terrible murders took place in Novocherkassk and its environs. The local militia is powerless. They are looking for a dangerous criminal, a repeat offender, but no one wants to even think that the killer may be the most ordinary person, their neighbor. The amazing ability to mimicry made Chikatilo indistinguishable from millions of Soviet citizens. He lived in society and satisfied his savage sexual fantasies, destroying the most precious thing that this society has, children.