Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
艾迪（汤姆·哈迪 Tom Hardy 饰）是一位深受观众喜爱的新闻记者，和女友安妮（米歇尔·威廉姆斯 Michelle Williams 饰）相恋多年，彼此之间感情十分要好。安妮是一名律师，接手了生命基金会的案件，在女友的邮箱里，艾迪发现了基金会老板德雷克（里兹·阿迈德 Riz Ahmed 饰）不为人知的秘密。为此，艾迪不仅丢了工作，女友也离他而去。 之后，生命基金会的朵拉博士（珍妮·斯蕾特 Jenny Slate 饰）找到了艾迪，希望艾迪能够帮助她阻止德雷克疯狂的罪行。在生命基金会的实验室里，艾迪发现了德雷克进行人体实验的证据，并且在误打误撞之中被外星生命体毒液附身。回到家后，艾迪和毒液之间形成了共生关系，他们要应对的是德雷克派出的一波又一波杀手。
Facing a bleak future, a young man runs away to Mexico where he is recruited by the mysterious captain of a paramilitary group of teens who fight drug cartels. Isolated at their desert camp and unsure what he's fighting for, he seeks to prove himself in this crucible of manhood.
