All eyes are on famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki when he investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn. Old bones come as no shock to anyone in this part of Poland, but it turns out these remains are fresh, the flesh chemically removed. Szacki questions the dead mans wife, only to be left with a suspicion shes hiding something. Then another victim surfaces-a violent husband, alive but maimed-giving...