Portrait of a Dead Model

In Moscow, under strange circumstances, girls are disappearing. Not stars, not models, not bankers' daughters — but saleswomen and cleaners, unattractive, plump, with unsuccessful personal lives. Then they are found in their apartments, but already lifeless, with signs of strangulation by a thin cord. And on the body of each victim, experts find antique sketches signed in French "Ingres".

Ingres — the name of the master of French neoclassicism. But how could the authentic sketches for the genius canvas "Turkish Baths" end up in the shabby Khrushchyovkas on the outskirts of Moscow? After all, all sketches for the great painting should be in the homeland of the famous artist, in the Ingres Museum in Montauban! The Parisian prefecture checks and… discovers a substitution. The case of the murder of the girls escalates into a crime of international scale. The sophisticated killer plays a deadly game with the detectives, forcing them to piece together the puzzle step by step to understand what connects the deceased girls from Russia to their idol — the legendary painter Ingres…