There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.
One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.
Un taxi es encontrado vacío, hecho pedazos y lleno de sangre. Dos chicas jóvenes son interrogadas y confiesan haber asesinado al conductor del taxi, pero no dirán donde está el cuerpo. Al día siguiente Tynnes Falk aparece muerto en un cajero automático, con su recibo en la mano. Falk había estado comprobando su cuenta cada semana. ¿Existe alguna conexión entre los casos? Kart Wallander busca respuestas sin parar hasta que mareado y descentrado tiene que buscar asistencia médica...
El amigo y colega de Wallander, Svedberg, es asesinado en su casa de un tiro. Al principio la policía cree que se trata de un suicidio pero pronto saldrán a la superficie oscuros secretos que harán evidente que fue asesinado. Este es el comienzo de un viaje donde Wallander no sólo tiene que resolver el asesinato sino que al mismo tiempo descubre quien fue realmente su amigo. A medida que avanza la investigación se descubre que la muerte de Svedberg tiene conexión con la de tres adolescentes a principios de verano...
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.
