Alexandr Starchenko

Artistic reconstruction of real events telling about the struggle of the Belarusian police against banditry in the first post-war years. 1946. A front-line scout, senior lieutenant Smolich arrives in the town of Porechye to strengthen the local militia: in the western regions of Belarus gangs terrorize the population. The bandits of the mysterious Freyshyutsa, a former Nazi collaborator, are especially rampant. Smolich and criminal investigation chief Krikunov have to neutralize the elusive enemy. However, the plan of the police operation is suddenly jeopardized by information leakage. It turns out that in the police station there is a traitor...

The company of young people falls into the forest outback on a mysterious lake and is faced with mystical horror. Based on the Belarusian legend that with the advent of night, everyone who died in the water turns into monsters that take the living with them.

Maria is a doctor and a mother to a young daughter; she still holds out hope that her husband, who went missing in the mountains, will return home. This state of waiting is driving her to the brink of madness. But fate has even harsher trials in store for her, pulling her into a turbulent sequence of events involving four men from her own circle. Threatening phone calls, bizarre encounters with strangers, being followed—and, ultimately, an attempt on her life. Maria’s nerves are frayed to the limit; she begins to suspect everyone. Pushed to the edge, she enlists the help of a private investigator to launch her own investigation…