When the young investigator Volodya Sosnovsky was exiled from the capital's temptations to Odessa at the behest of his family, he could not have imagined that his fate would change dramatically in this seaside town. Despite the military actions of the First World War, Odessa lived its life. The gang leaders divided the territory here, it was not considered shameful to be a member of one of such gangs, many girls went to the panel, because the poor residents of Odessa had no other opportunity to earn ... Meanwhile, the rich arranged balls and parties. And suddenly the corpses of the rich begin to be found in the city. One, the second, the third ... They are mutilated to the point of impossibility, but the main thing is that everyone's fingers have been cut off. In Odessa, panic, the townspeople are convinced that this is the work of a killer named Cannibal. Volodya, together with the old investigator Polipin, begins to search for him. Sosnowski could not imagine what role in this story plays the girl Tanya, whom he sincerely loved ...