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　　一位30多岁的纽约犹太妇女在卧室里练习虐恋的艺术，并在工作和家庭中尝试驾驭支配与臣服的动态关系。

　　徐大燕，虽自幼生得标致，但却因为性格强势，持家精打细算，容不得他人占自己家半点便宜，闻名村里村外，导致已到婚嫁之龄未嫁在家。不平常女子人生也必然不平常，成家后的徐大燕，凭借精密与能干使得原本穷破的家，日渐变得富足与温馨，更是在其短暂的一生留下诸多感人事迹。

　　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 ...