One frosty morning, he, stripped naked and tortured to death, was found hanging from a tree in the middle of the plain. Who could be bothered by a lonely, harmless eccentric? Or is there a bloody ritual of neo-pagans behind this murder? Or the pranks of abandoned and embittered teenagers who have gone too far? Or maybe the evil is rooted deeper - in the ancestral past? After all, he has very strange people in his family - the Murvall family, consisting, as in a terrible fairy tale, of a witch mother and three robber sons, who even at the beginning of the twenty-first century live according to their own, almost primitive laws. Malin Force, young woman - a policeman, trying to solve the mystery of a murder, listening to the whispers of the dead and peering into the darkness of human souls.