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Hannibal Lecter is a sociopath, a genius, a murderer. He was not born a maniac: life, or rather, death, made him that way. This is the story of his birth and formation.

A famous artist arrives at a Soviet orphanage to take his nephew away from there. The boy has miraculously survived the millstones of war, having lost his parents and sister. Now Hannibal will live in France with his uncle's family. It seems that at last he has found the peace and love he longed for. But demons live in his soul, and it is impossible to let them go - only to crush, absorb, digest...