Annette Vetre, the daughter of an influential Norwegian politician, has disappeared. Chief Police Inspector Fredrik Beyer takes up the case without much zeal - after all, the solution seems obvious. The girl was a member of a religious community, and her disappearance is probably somehow connected with the activities of the sect. However, the brutal murder of adherents of the doctrine to which Annette belonged in the suburbs of Oslo suggests Beyer to the idea that the matter is much more complicated than it seems at first glance. When the police find a laboratory at the scene of a crime where, apparently, horrific experiments were carried out on people, Fredrik Beyer and Kafa Iqbal no longer doubt: the real motives for all crimes lie in the past. But to find the culprit, you will have to do more than just read the darkest pages of history , but also to enter into confrontation with those whose power is limitless...