In South Africa, a group of fanatics is preparing an assassination attempt on a prominent political figure. Meanwhile, in Sweden, real estate broker Louise Åkerblom disappears. Soon I catch a body from the well with a bullet in the forehead. There is not a single clue in the victim’s past, and the investigation is marking time. But then the police find the severed finger of a black man near the crime scene. Commissioner Wallander knows little about apartheid or international politics. And even more so, he has no idea what the connection between the former KGB and white nationalists from South Africa can be. However, this time in his hands is not the fate of a few people, but the fate of an entire state.