In the midst of the Swedish winter, a young mother is found murdered in a snowdrift among the trees behind the kindergarten where she had taken her son in the morning... Almost on the equator, in the sweltering heat of Kenya, a government official is kidnapped... In her line of work, journalist Annika Bengtzon is not the first to encounter complicated crimes, generated by the darkest sides of the human soul. She has several crime dramas under her belt, in the investigation of which she had to take part. And yet this time everything is completely different. Much scarier and more painful. After all, the matter is not only high-profile, but also deeply personal.