SYNOPSIS

Whilefilming content on a wild slope in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains, some bloggers stumble upon a horrific discovery – the body of a woman, burned alive and buried in the snow. The victim turns out to be Elsa Wagner, an Austrian artist who disappeared seven hundred kilometres away. The impossible logistics and gruesome cruelty compel Markus, an experienced Austrian investigator, to travel to Ukraine and join the investigation led by Oles, a local cop whose methods are far from the restraint imposed by European protocols. Around the same time, Róża , a Polish professional fighter, arrives in the Carpathians insearch of her brother, who took a one-off job in Ukraine and never returned. In the local morgue, she finds only his burned remains. Róża decides to find the killer herself – unlike Markus and Oles, she has come here not for justice or punishment, but for revenge. The investigation quickly takes on an international dimension: people from eight countries have gone missing, and their bodies are all being found burned in the same valley deep in the Ukrainian Carpathians. As an international scandal begins to unfold, diplomatic pressure descends on a small mountain investigation.

Markus, Oles and Róża – three incompatible forces – try to hunt the same beast, each for their own reasons. Three vectors intersect, compete, and unpredictably push the case forward, like a three-body problem: together it’s difficult, apart – impossible. Every step they take leads to a dead end, and the mystery of illegal border crossings suddenly pushes them into a direct confrontation with local smugglers. For each of these characters, the trip into the mountains becomes more than a search for a killer – it becomes a reason to re-examine their own lives and their view of the world. Only by changing, by ceasing to be their old selves, do these threerealise that logic is useless here – and that they themselves have become random elements in someone’s bloody ritual. The only unshakable pattern: all the victims come from countries that share the Carpathian range. And it is this geographical pattern that finally reveals the killer’s blind spot – his fanatical devotion to mountains, borders, and fire. Deep in the wild Carpathians, an answer awaits  – one that will force them to ask themselves: Whose side is justice really on?