<p><b><u>A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna.</u></b><br><br>The killer is no ordinary ''lust murderer'', but rather an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age before the First World War.<br><br>Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance. But to understand the killer''s behaviour, Liebermann must make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind, tracking a monster whose modus operandi combines both exquisite precision and savage cruelty.<br><br>As the investigation continues, Liebermann and Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art and couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister of secrets...</p>