Ghennadii Boiarchin

New Year's Eve, 1999. A man is fatally shot during a hunting trip. Agachi, a young investigator just starting his career, is sent from the capital to determine whether it was a crime or an accident. Soon, this seemingly simple case will turn into a test of conscience.

Russia, Current day. Gynecologist Angela Kuhlmann finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation: she has to leave Moscow and start working within a province. The city is experiencing difficult times: because of the newly built highway to Moscow, it sinks into fornication and sin. Soon after Ms. Kuhlmann performs an illegal abortion - the patient claims to carry the Antichrist within her womb and takes the embryo home with her. From that moment on, a series of strange incidents begin to occur within her life.