The dry summer of 1983 caused a terrible fire that forever changed the fate of the residents of the small village of Malinniki. Changed and firmly tied together with strong Flemish knots, determining many actions and decisions for years to come. Several decades later, trouble comes to the quiet village again: a seventeen-year-old girl disappears. A young and inexperienced district police officer takes on the investigation, who very soon realizes that everything in this case rests on events of the distant past. What secrets will the tragedy reveal? What hides in the souls of people he has known since childhood? And where will the traces of a long-ago fire lead?..