Crime TV reporter Ellen Tamm decides to take a temporary break from work and leaves noisy Stockholm for her parents’ house in Erelu. However, she does not find peace in the family nest either: she is haunted by painful memories associated with this place. A mysterious murder that happened in the surrounding area forces Ellen to distract herself from her own problems, and she zealously takes up the investigation. Almost nothing is known about the victim, Liv Lind, except that she was not well liked by the locals and the police are not interested in finding the killer. Ellen is forced to reconstruct the life of a murdered woman alone. And the more she dives into Liv’s past, the more clearly the terrible truth about the present emerges. The idyll of a small town turns out to be an illusion hiding the dark secrets of its inhabitants...