Five years ago, a member of the Danish Parliament, the beautiful Mereta Lynggaard, disappeared without a trace from a ferry between Denmark and Germany. It is generally accepted that she accidentally fell overboard and drowned. However, Karl Mörck, head of the newly created department for the investigation of particularly important cases, does not agree with this conclusion. Why would a healthy young woman fall overboard in calm weather? But who could “help” her? Her brother Uffe, who was left speechless and partially sane in a long-ago accident? Or a mysterious admirer who appeared shortly before her disappearance? To get to the bottom of the truth, Karl Mörck and his assistant, a Syrian named Hafez Assad, will have to carefully study Mereta's past. For the first time in Russian.