Officer MJ is investigating a murder. At this time, a man was arrested because of a conflict with the police. This man is accused of raping and killing 12 young boys, and he is also an important suspect in this murder. In the process of searching for evidence, MJ began to be troubled by strange dreams. While starting a conversation with the suspect, the case became increasingly convoluted.
The story of this film begins with the capture of a serial killer Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres . This shocking case is finally over. The film begins with his interrogation. The police confirmed that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres killed fourteen teenage boys. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who was in prison, was not ashamed of his crimes. Instead, he ruthlessly laughed at the policemen who tried to force him to confess. Faced with such a situation, the police had nothing to do.
There is a village policeman MJ in a remote village with a virtuous wife and a pair of children, but life is not satisfactory. His aging wife, rebellious son Christine, and young daughter made him tired. In this Christian countryside, a girl, Lucia, was brutally murdered a few years ago, causing everyone to be uneasy. They have always wondered who did it, and MJ, who witnessed the girl’s tragic death, still couldn’t let it go. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the news that the serial killer had been captured on TV. So MJ took this case and set off to the prison where Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was located. When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres saw MJ, he smiled inexplicably and everyone was suspicious, and MJ also felt a little creepy. The killer still laughed at the rustic MJ, constantly destroying MJ's moral bottom line, but occasionally in a sentence or two. Reveal the faint mystery. MJ followed the clues of the piece of paper, constantly searching for all kinds of evidence.
And in the process of talking to the killer, he is constantly aware of the darkness in his heart. The life of clear rules and disciplines for many years began to disintegrate in this prosperous city.
The killer watched every step of MJ's transformation, secretly proud. Pushing him harder. While resisting such mental torture, MJ analyzed the clues he got. There are fourteen squares on the wall of the assassin’s room, one of which has a pair of semen-filled underwear from Lucia. The crime was finally confirmed. When MJ returned home, he found all kinds of things about his son. Misdemeanor, his wife is helpless, MJ is also upset.
At this time, a phone call from the police recalled MJ. It turned out that the semen on the underwear was not only the killer, but he also had an accomplice. The adult residents of the village all went for the laboratory test. Only MJ and his father-in-law did not go. When everyone was denied, MJ was mad. Because of his wife, MJ has been in tension with his father-in-law, when he was holding a gun. Reaching his father-in-law, his mother-in-law came out and told him: her husband has been impotence for many years. The clue is broken again.
The killer Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres committed suicide by poisoning in prison. MJ who rushed to the hospital heard one in front of the bed, something he had realized but did not dare to admit.
The killer told him: the night the girl died, MJ's son was with her. The truth became clear, and MJ calmly returned home. It coincided with his son Christine's birthday, a lively banquet.
When giving gifts, MJ led his son into the room, opened the closet, and asked his son to choose one of his shotguns as a birthday gift. And told him to take him to hunting the next day. The killer Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres died, but the police did not find the notes he had kept in prison. After multiple verifications, it turned out that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres bribed a policeman. The drug was provided by the policeman, and the police also found it. That notebook.
The note records the real situation at the time. It turns out that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres drove a truck to this town for a short stay due to too many murders, but accidentally discovered that MJ's son was masturbating in front of the girl Lucia, and MJ called his son away. , And the assassin hiding in the dark covered Lucia's mouth, he glued Lucia's panties to Christine's body fluid on the ground, and then madly killed her. In the jungle, his son Christine was looking for prey, while MJ was holding a shotgun and aimed at his son's weak figure.
Just as he was about to pull the trigger, a large group of deer slowly walked out of the forest, quietly and calmly surrounding them, MJ's vision blurred.
When the helicopter flew in, the desperate wife saw the father and son still in the field, and held them tightly for a long time, unwilling to let go. The faraway policeman waved the red laptop of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres to MJ .