艾莉森(梅利莎·乔治 Melissa George 饰)是一名攀岩爱好者,一次位于苏格兰高地的攀岩活动中,她和他的四名队友在无意之中发现了一个秘密的地下室,在那里,关着一个年幼的塞尔维亚女孩。直觉告诉艾莉森事有蹊跷,正义感爆发的她决定和队友们一同解救这个被绑架的可怜女孩。 原来,女孩是东欧某黑道老大的女儿,两名不知天高地厚的绑匪劫持了她,希望得到巨额的赎金,如果这一行动失败,那等待着他们的只有死路一条。艾莉森一行人的行动触怒了绑匪,为了利益,也为了保命,在登山队和穷凶极恶的暴徒之间,一场惊心动魄的你追我逃展开了。而除了来自绑匪的威胁外,人性深处的黑暗和自私也张开了血盆大口,等着将他们吞噬
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 ...