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, does not suspect that he has become the object of research for Sonya, a graduate student in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While working on her Ph.D. thesis "The influence of genes on the children of serial killers", Alik was a godsend for the ambitious, career-minded Sonya.