里昂（Antoine L'Écuyer 饰）是一个普通的不能再普通的十岁男孩，出生在一个平凡的家庭之中。里昂的父亲菲利普（Daniel Brière 饰）和母亲玛德琳娜（苏珊妮·克莱门特 Suzanne Clément 饰）之间的感情似乎并不是很好，无数个夜晚，里昂都是伴着两人激烈的争吵声入眠的。 里昂认识一个名叫莉亚（Catherine Faucher 饰）的小姑娘，这个姑娘早熟、骄傲，似乎什么都懂，在她的面前，里昂变成了一个无知的小鬼头，这种感觉让里昂十分不爽。某日，玛德琳娜终于决定离开这个让她伤痕累累的家庭，前往风景如诗如画的希拉。从这一天起，里昂的人生发生了翻天覆地的变化，与此同时，他和莉亚之间的关系也有了微妙的转变。
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
From living a normal life to surviving homelessness in the city of Miami, Peter is a victim of the turbulent US recession during late 2000's. A drama based on true events. A heartbreaking chronicle witnessing a drastic character transformation when he is exposed to the harsh cruelties the streets reveal.
