A young FBI trainee is tasked with finding a serial killer who skins his victims, but she has to turn to Dr. Hannibal Lecter who's in jail for killing and cannibalizing his victims. She must first gain his respect to agree to help her with her case before the killer proceeds with another crime.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter returns to America, and F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling attempts to apprehend him before his surviving victim, Mason Verger, captures him.
Retired FBI agent Will Graham is drawn back to his old life when he is recruited to help with the hunt of a serial killer known as the Tooth Fairy. To better understand the psychology of a killer, he reluctantly enlists the expertise of the infamous serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Now living with his beautiful aunt, after his parents were killed during the war, young Hannibal Lecter is planning his revenge from his sister's killers.