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Commissioner Edward Popielski is expelled from the Lviv police when an epileptic attack causes him to lose a criminal chase and his temper on the police chief. He becomes a Latin tutor to make ends meet. An astrologer, Luba Bajdykowa is found murdered. Next to the victim, the police find Hebrew characters arranged in a strange code. Unable to crack the code the police appoint Popielski on the case. A beautiful Renata Sperling, Popielski's ex-student visits him to request his help with finding her employer Countess Bekierska. Another victim is found with a similar code next to her.

Popielski is privately appointed by Luba's son to find his mother's murderer. Meanwhile Popielski falls in love with Renata and entangles himself into a stormy erotic relationship with her. Popielski, with the help of a young Jew and Leokadia, discovers that the Hebrew code is a mathematical sequence in which each letter is assigned to a number. In the Lviv archives Popielski finds that the names of both victims and the countess add up to the same number - 68.

Bójko informs Popielski that Renata sleeps with him and is related to Bekierski. Edward doesn't believe Renata when she denies this and she runs away in desperation. Popielski takes revenge on Bójko by beating him brutally. In exchange for his life, he reveals to Edward the secret of the gematria and the magical squares. In a brutal interrogation, Bójko indirectly confesses to the murders. Popielski delivers Bójko to Luba's son who accidentally kills him. Edward devises a cunning plan to frame Count Bekierski for the murder.

Two Lviv thugs, Zygmunt Hanas and Mosze Kiczales, are trying to find the kidnapper, Elzbieta Hanasówna, Zygmunt's handicapped daughter. Elzbieta is in the hands of a pervert who plays ritual scenes of rape, showering the victim with white flower petals. Edward gets a message from Hanas that Lodzia is in his hands and must find a pervert or she will share his daughter's fate, only that the perpetrators will be his thugs. Edward agrees to work with Hans.

In the course of further investigation, Popielski receives information that the rapist is probably allergic to the flower identified on Elizabeta's body. He checks a lead, looking for allergies to flowers in a clinic and comes upon the name Gustav. On a strong intuition, Popielski kidnaps Gustav Lewicki, and together with Hanas they try to see if the doctor reacts to the flowers. The test isn't too long and the doctor passes, instead the girl reacts to Popielski's voice. Hanas, looking for the cause, finds in her room, a player playing recordings of the detective's voice and a red balloon used to condition Elizabeta to react with fear to the voice. Lewicki manages to escape.

Lviv on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The tension of impending extermination infects the inhabitants. At the back of a Jewish pharmacy, a child, Henio Pytka, is murdered. Zaremba finds the body. Anti-Semitic sentiments are emerging in the city. After the trauma of the previous case and the threat to his family, Popielski wants to leave the police. After Kocowski's persuasion and a guarantee of safety for the family, he agrees to lead the case again. Together with Mosze Kiaczales, the Jewish king of the underground, they try to find the killer who is one step ahead of them all the time.

Popielski, tormented by remorse after the murder of Malecki, goes to a mass for little Henio Pytka. Unfortunately, a second victim appears. The murderer writes a telegram to Popielski, inviting him to play. Popielski suspects that his son Jerzyk may be the victim. There is a confrontation with the murderer, Edward recognizes his face and calls him Herod.

Herod is not idle, he kidnaps Popielski's son. The situation is getting out of control. You failed, Lodzia did not take care of Jerzyk, Popielski swears revenge on Herod and the whole world. Herod meets Popielski at a closed swimming pool, in his mouth he hid an ampoule with the address of Jerzyk's detention. Popielski kills Herod, but the ampoule is empty. Someone taunted him.

Popielski lost Lviv, strength and health. Together with a group of repatriates, he goes to Wroclaw. There he meets Eberhard Mock, head of the criminal police in Breslau (Wroclaw). Edward knows him from the Minotaur case. Now, however, Eberhard has to flee Poland, along with a wave of German refugees. Edward decides to exchange Lewicki for Lódz, Mock detects the ruse, but "Bald" has nothing to lose.

Wroclaw in 1946 is the world after the apocalypse. Everyone seems to be tainted by evil. And yet, in Popielski's poor apartment, someone special appears. Professor Stefanus, a man who absolutely believes in human evolution towards good. He comes to Popielski with a job offer. The detective is to discover who, among the students of Stefanus's secret philosophy course, is the informer. Circumstantial evidence indicates that one of the three girls is a spy.

Lodzia, after the torture chamber of the UB, ends up in the hospital, she is very ill, and Edward takes care of her with great care. Following her tip, Popielski goes on the trail of three Soviet soldiers. There, his paths cross with Captain Mikhail Chernikov, who, looking for Soviet stragglers, tracks Popielski. The result of this cooperation is the capture of one of Koldashov's rapists and his public execution.

During the investigation, Popielski finds a trail of a strange Russian - Boroszwili, who hangs around Murawski's house. Following him, he ends up at Szaberplatz, where Boroszwili is doing business with Colonel Bogdylov himself. Now everything is starting to come together. Edward notifies Chernikov, who launches an internal investigation into the case of Boroshvili and Bogdylov.