My name is Simon. I am 10 years old. I am a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defense lawyer, has no idea what awaits him when he agrees to meet a new client in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Berlin. To his surprise, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a previous life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he explores the cellar Simon has shown him and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, his skull shattered by an axe - just as Simon had told him. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims, whose bodies have remained undiscovered for years. Suddenly, the present seems deadly dangerous... "The Child" is a dark, subversive thriller that will make your heart race with adrenaline.