The standard of an intellectual thriller from a truly powerful Swedish writer, August Prize winner, Karl-Johann Wallgren. On a warm June evening in 1970, a father heads to the subway with his two sons. He is going to go down to the station by elevator, but the eldest son really wants to escape down the stairs. A certain lady offers to escort the boy. The father agrees, but when he goes out onto the platform, it is completely empty. The metro train has just left the station...2012, Stockholm. Danny Katz, who had problems with the law since childhood, has long since put an end to his criminal past. Unwittingly, he becomes a witness and participant in very strange events that lead to the murder of a woman and force him to hide from the police again. Danny realizes that he was set up. And now he will have to work hard to prove his innocence and expose the real killer...