Dr. Basil Feurchtegott operates an complete stranger on the kitchen table in his vacation home, and suddenly finds himself in a very dangerous situation. However, the doctor hasn't felt so alive for a long time. 'The Man', a contract killer, had just traveled by train across the border to Switzerland. In a high rise building 'The Man' accomplishes his job, but is injured. Beneath a bride the two men meet. Fuerchtegott finds the hurt 'Man', and shortly afterwards operates him. The patient rewards him by granting him a favor. A dark net of mistrust, chance, misunderstandings and ignorance unravels towards a catastrophe. Fuerchtegott resumes his job inconspicuously but guilty in the circle of men in white coats, but one of them is missing...
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A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.