1975. A writer who is preparing to publish a book about Hitler's executioner Alex Lyut is killed at his dacha near Moscow. Right before his death, he manages to tell his friend, the head of the special department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the search for war criminals, General Pyotr Somov, the incredible news: Fierce, who was considered dead since 1944, is alive. Somov instructs his best investigator, Colonel Yegor Sukharev, to sort out this case. In this, he is helped by a new employee of the special department - Senior Lieutenant Boris Kasyanov.