The movie is based on real events about the bloodiest maniac of the USSR, Andrei Chikatilo, also known as “the monster from Rostov”.

…The year eighty-six. Gorbachev, perestroika. The main character – a teacher with the surname Evilenko – is kicked out of school for seducing girls. He gets a job on the railroad, “snitching” on colleagues in the KGB, and in his spare time kills…