Vadik, a young opera singer from Moscow, is being transferred to St. Petersburg because his fiancee lives here. As a mentor, Vadik receives a senior operative, Captain Gosha Kolpakov, a psychotic suicidal and misanthropic man living the darkest moment of his life. Two partners travel around St. Petersburg near Bulanov and investigate the case of the disappearance of the corpses of young girls from morgues.

Irina Vladimirovna seems to dote on her son and Wife, but her guardianship is suffocatingly excessive: the relationship is so strained that she has to visit a family psychologist. At one of the receptions, the specialist suggests that the woman begin the separation process with the child. Irina Vladimirovna just has a second apartment, which is now rented to tourists, where Zhenya could move, and there, you see, some kind of social life will be adjusted, since one of the two rooms will still be put up for daily rent. In a new place, Zhenya immediately meets a neighbor girl, Dasha.

Chechnyan War veteran Alexei Volkovoy (aka Volk) is a brutal gangster in Russia's underworld as well as a covert agent for the Russian military. Think of him as the Russian Jason Bourne.