Detective Thomas Raunsholt is on long leave due to depression that has taken hold of him after the death of his girlfriend Eva. The norms of society mean little to him, just as in the current circumstances the arguments of reason mean little to Thomas. He has nothing to lose and is almost impossible to scare, even if he ends up in the underworld. It is there that Thomas goes at the request of his friend. In search of a girl who disappeared in Denmark several years ago, Thomas rushes into the dark labyrinth of the criminal world, the existence of which few people know about in prosperous Copenhagen and Stockholm. Human life is worth nothing there. There is no need to wear a mask there. In this world, the darkest sides of human nature are revealed and the most terrible fantasies that can be born in the head of a madman come true...