Two terrible events, without obvious connection, shake Fjallbacka to its core. A famous photographer is found brutally murdered in a showroom. Henning Bauer, the Nobel prize winner in literature, suffers from a violent act on the small island where he is writing the 10th book in his world famous series.

While Patrik Hedstroem and his colleagues at Tanumshede police station struggle to investigate the cases, Erica Falck researches a murder on a trans man in Stockholm in the 1980's. She slowly realizes that the threads from the past are connected to the present time, and that old sins leave long shadows behind.