A documentary mini-series about sexual maniac Gennady Mikhasevich better known as the Vitebsk Strangler. From 1971 to 1985 he committed 36 murders, 14 innocent people served time in prison because of him, one was sentenced to death.
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
