A teenager disappears on her way home from a party, but the local police don’t take it seriously until her dead body turns up. Maja Angell decides to get involved.

Maja is sure the police have charged the wrong man and takes a huge risk to prove it. Meanwhile, someone else decides to find out what happened to Sofie too.

After digging into cold cases, Maja makes her first big breakthrough. Elle finds clues of her own at the hotel where Sofie worked.

Maja and the police investigators discover a pattern of cases that is much more extensive than first thought. But her methods risk her getting kicked off the team.

A sidelined Maja discovers that her own family’s secrets shed light on the murder and goes to her father for answers. Elle has a decision to make about what to do next.

The consequences of the daughter-father feud send Maja even closer to the tipping point. Elle runs into danger on her way back to the north.

Believing she was subject to abuse as a child, Maja presses her mother for information. The police learn the killer is holding a new victim at an unknown location.

The police swoop in to arrest their suspect, but he escapes into the forest. Realizing there is no way out, the man finally does what Maja has been waiting for him to do.