A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe.
One night goes on and the morning goes by. With stylistic melancholy found in Jan Stenmark's popular images we follow a few people in the small residential district in Sköndal.
Henrik sufre pesadillas sobre la muerte de su madre. Entonces recibe la noticia de que su padre ha muerto y tiene que dejar todo para ir a un misterioso pueblo a averiguar la causa. Al llegar, es amenazado por fuerzas sobrenaturales y aterradoras visiones, que pondrán en duda su fe y le demostraran que el infierno existe.
