스톨홀름의 24시간 동안 수 많은 운명들이 교차한다. 한 쌍의 남녀는 오스트레일리아로 여행을 떠나려고 하지만 뜻대로 되지 않고, 부유한 술집 주인은 임신한 딸 때문에 근심이 많다. 두 명의 스킨헤드족은 도저히 거절할 수 없는 제안을 받고. 사람들의 삶 중 가장 중요한 순간들을 영화 속에서 발견할 수 있다.
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.
In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
