The national prosecutor, Simonas, joins the investigation and discovers that the man's real cause of death was due to prolonged torture: a venomous snake was inserted into his body.

A flashback to the year 1990 reveals that the town's current elite—Gintas, Laimonas, judge Julius, priest Antanas, and the incumbent female mayor, Rasa, were once Soviet KGB informants.

During the course of a few days, the judge and priest join the list of the dead, Gintas is suspected of the murders, and events take an unexpected turn.

[2] In a 2022 review, Darius Voitukevičius of Delfi.lt wrote that The Generation of Evil is "high-caliber, unpredictable, tense, and the most mature film by Vėlyvis, who has proven that not only Scandinavians have the talent to create strong detective cinema".

[3] In a separate article, the publication wrote that the "Scandinavian noir film has attempted to show the work of law enforcement officers (...) without sugarcoating and exaggerated heroism".