A cold murder-on-video case sets two friends on an investigative journey of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia's Neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find the murderers.
A viral murder video sets the filmmaker Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima "Shuravi" on an investigative journey of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia's Neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find the killers.
2008: After the Russian police refuse to investigate a double hate crime murder uploaded on YouTube, film director Vladi Antonevicz and his Moscow friend Dima "Shurawi" set out on a detective quest into the depths of the neo-Nazi underground in Russia. Under the guise of an American journalist, Antonevicz collects evidence in order to complete the puzzle of the mysterious case. But the murder on video conceals a much bigger secret than meets the eye: the filmmaker comes to the conclusion that the unprecedented wave of hate crime murders that swept Moscow just before the 2008 presidential elections was initiated by the authorities. Antonevicz believes that those responsible for the murder on the video are the members of one of the neo-Nazi groups: Dmitry Romyantsev, a guy known as "Tesak", and a mysterious man called "Shorty" to whom the filmmaker attributes a major role in the affair: "Shorty" who held a senior position in the neo-Nazi organization, worked in parallel for the Russian FSB in order to provoke bloodshed on the streets of Moscow as part of the election campaign run by Putin's party. The involvement of the FSB, along with the mysterious disappearance of "Shorty", leads the filmmakers to a dangerous crossroads, and the investigation comes to a halt.