Александр Горбатов

1989-1990 General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately desires to become a star of world politics and for this he is ready to go towards the West as far as he likes. But the restructuring he conceived led to fatal, irreversible consequences. First, the Warsaw bloc of socialist countries collapsed, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

March 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory overshadows a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scanty testimonies of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time at the crime scene they leave portraits of the dead. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Dead Head", and its leader - the Artist. The investigation is being carried out by an experienced Major Efimov and Captain Sazonov. However, the further they delve into the case, the more they become convinced that the murders and robberies are a front. And they have yet to reveal the real goals of the Artist. When the old comrade Sazonov Rudakov joins the investigation by the NKVD, each of the heroes is under suspicion...