Esme is still an unspoiled youth when she lets the AI's intellectual algorithms take her away from what awaits her: society's foremost initiation rite - the first plastic surgery. In Beata GĂ„rdeler's visually poetic future, narcissism has taken over and the norms of beauty has been drawn to extreme.
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path.
Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to get out of her father's shadow, apply to the police academy, where they become close friends.