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 ...

佳娜（阿格莱亚·塔拉索娃 Aglaya Tarasova 饰）出生在一个非常贫困的家庭之中，在母亲的鼓励和栽培下，佳娜成为了一名花样滑冰运动员，虽然佳娜的身体条件并不是非常适合这项运动，但凭借着自己的努力，佳娜最终成功的站在了世界顶级花滑男选手里奥纳夫（米洛斯·比柯维奇 Milos Bikovic 饰）的身边，成为了他的搭档。两人通过默契十足的合作夺得了许多耀眼的成绩，彼此之间也碰撞出了爱情的火花。
　　花滑世界杯即将开始之前，佳娜不幸受伤，无奈只能告别赛场，里奥纳夫也因此离开了她。就在佳娜万念俱灰的时候，冰球运动员萨沙（亚历山大·佩特洛夫 Alexander Petrov 饰）成为了她坚强的后盾。

比赛结束后，冰球明星萨沙与花滑女王娜佳举行了童话般的婚礼，幸福地生活在一起。而怀孕的娜佳被医生告知，当年的旧疾会给她生产带来生命危险。最终她坚持生下女儿却遗憾离世。萨沙肩负起单身爸爸的责任，默默忍痛抚养女儿长大，却因偏执的心结，禁止女儿再接触有关花滑的一切。继承母亲天赋的小娜佳，被贝加尔湖的冰面吸引，展示出非凡的天赋。萨沙因疏于对女儿的照顾，被夺走了抚养权，为了赢回自己世上唯一的亲人，昔日王者决定重归赛场，与女儿一起为再度团圆而战。

T-34坦克，是第二次世界大战前由苏联哈尔科夫共产国际工厂设计师米哈伊尔·伊里奇·科什金设计的中型坦克。本片是两辆原型坦克从哈尔科夫，自走到莫斯科参审的传奇经历……