Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in thi s case, the late 1980s So viet Un ion. With Gl asnost and t he end o f communist  rule, the We st also lear ned of the (unsurpris ing) fact th at there were s erial k illers in Russ ia too – t he most n otorious c ase probably  that of Andrei Chikatilo, n ickname d the R ostov Ripper , or the R ussian Hanni bal Lecter.  Based on these  and many o ther sour ces, K vataniy a and scre enwriter Olga G orodetskaya con structed an  immersive psychologic al puzzle, ju mping bac k and forth in time, t o reveal ever n ew-possible m otives f or the  actions o f all the prota gonists. It a ll star ts in 1990,  when De tective I ssa Davydov is celebrat ing his p romotion and re ceives a call,  reporting  a crime t hat look s precisely l ike the ones o f the serial killer t hat he f amously captur ed some yea rs before  ...　　Like Fri tz Lang,  David Fin cher or Bon g Joon Ho before him , talented deb ut film maker La do Kvataniya