A young boy is forced to live with a chimney-sweeper family and be his apprentice after his parents death. Even though he is good chimney-sweeper and hard working, he would rather be a pastry cook like his late father.
Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.