A Kurt Wallander mystery told from the perspectives of police and criminal. A foreign teenage girl burns herself to death under inspector Wallander's eyes. Several homicides take place where the victim is not only killed but scalped. The victims don't seem to have any connection.
Mientras se producen una serie de hechos que parecen anunciar un próximo caos, un hombre comienza, gradualmente, a ser consciente de lo absurdo del mundo y de lo difícil que resulta comportarse y vivir como un ser humano.
