After inheriting a hefty debt, an ex-special ops officer — now guarding a shopping mall — spots an opportunity to solve his financial predicament.

Snow falls softly over a desolate playground. A fourteen-year-old boy lays face down in front of a swing-set as his life drains out of the gaping wound in his head. Behind him stands his best friend, a warm gun in his trembling hand. When children commit horrible crimes, who bears responsibility? And what does it do to us all when we allow ourselves to view children as monsters? At the center of this gut-wrenching story are the lost children: those we fail to catch before they fall between the cracks – whether due to negligence, poverty, or social alienation. The single mothers, the grocer in the town square, the local cop – no one is left untouched in a society where the escalating violence is taking over struggling fringe communities. 

In 1994, the mass suicide of a cult based in a small village in the Alps hits the headlines… Thirty years later, the murder of a woman who was killed following the rituals of this strange community wreaks havoc on the delicate balance restored by the residents.The perfect scapegoat, Jaro Gatsi, a young offender who has arrived in the mountains to get his life back on track, soon finds himself accused of the murder.Determined to prove his innocence, he receives some unexpected help from Ida, an eccentric and hyperconnected geek who is looking for her missing father…They will soon realize that their involvement in this case owes nothing to chance, and that the answers they are looking for are rooted in the secrets of their own past…

A young girl is murdered near Opole. Terrifying body mutilations and marks left in place indicate ritual murder. The matter is being dealt with by Commissioner Agnieszka Polkowska. Due to the extraordinary cruelty of the crime and the suspicion that the perpetrator may be a serial killer, the case is interested in the Provincial Headquarters. Polkowska, to her dissatisfaction, is assigned to the investigation of Commissioner Tomasz Mrówiec. At that time, Piotr Wolnicki, lectures on religious studies at the Opole university. He permanently works and lives with his family in a beautiful home. Already at the beginning of the academic year, the man chooses his humble and intelligent student Ewa Banach as his favorite. The girl does not know that her lecturer hides a dark secret.