At the end of a cold January night, a terrible massacre occurred in a Swedish village. Judge Birgitta Ruslin, having learned that among the dead elderly people were the adoptive parents of her late mother, became interested in the investigation, but the police did not take her seriously. By chance, Birgitta managed to get on the “Chinese trail” in this mysterious case, and soon fate brought her to Beijing, where she had dreamed of visiting since her rebellious youth...