His name is Marco, and he is part of a crime family operating in Denmark. Zola, the leader of this clan, forces teenagers like Marco to pick pockets and break into apartments; older guys take on more serious matters, not disdaining contract killings. Iron discipline reigns in the clan. But Marco dreams of only one thing - to run away somewhere far away and live the normal life of an ordinary person. And one day he decides to escape. But at the same time he accidentally learns a carefully hidden secret about a terrible murder once committed by members of the clan. Now inevitable death awaits him. Only Karl Mörck, head of department “Q” of the metropolitan police, who is leading the investigation of that long-ago murder, can save Marco...