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After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together.
The father of seventeen-year-old Alik is arrested for committing a series of brutal murders. The mother takes her son and moves with him to another city. Alik, trying to start a new life and does not suspect that he has become the object of research for Sonya, a graduate student at the Psychological Faculty of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While working on his PhD thesis "The influence of genes on the children of serial killers," Alik is a gift of fate for the ambitious, career-oriented Sonya.
The country is gradually moving away from the 90s, life is getting better and people are again attracted to the Black Sea resorts, where travelers along the way become victims of brutal murderers. In the pursuit of profit, they spare no one: neither women, nor the elderly, nor children. All attempts to get on the trail of criminals end in nothing and there is not a single serious clue in the case. At the same time, Vitaly Vitvitsky and his pregnant wife Irina Ovsyannikova go on vacation to the Crimea and themselves fall into the clutches of criminals, who turn out to be members of the "Amazon Gang", led by a certain Smallpox.
Moscow journalist comes to the Pervomaysky farmstead to interview Efrosinya Semenova, a heroic mother who lost nine sons in the war, on assignment from the editorial office. During long conversations, he discovers the courage and heroism of each son, as well as the indestructible strength of spirit of Efrosinya.
He killed and went unpunished for more than ten years, and more than fifty people died at his hands. An innocent man was convicted and shot instead. For a long time, the murders he committed could not be combined into one case. Maniacs of this caliber simply did not exist in the USSR, so law enforcement agencies were not ready to fight the "Rabid Beast", as journalists later dubbed it. Vigilantes, police officers, investigators from the prosecutor's office, psychiatrists were involved in the capture of Chikatilo, and new investigative techniques were developed that will help save innocent people.