Kurt Wallander has bought a dream house by the sea, but his peace and quiet is soon shattered when a man is murdered and an explosion in one of Ystad's power grids shuts down the electricity in the whole city.
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.
Mimmi starts to get enough, Reine just work all the time and watching TV. At last Reine has to choose, either they go to vacation together or Mimmi goes alone and if she does she can't promise that she will come back. Reine chooses the first alternative and books a vacation trip up to the mountains, many of their friends also booked the same vacation place.
고등학교 화학 교사인 코니는 어느 날 갑자기 마약소지 혐의로 체포되어 감옥에 들어간다. 그는 누군가 자기집에 마약을 숨겨놓고 자신에게 혐의를 뒤집어 씌웠다고 토로하지만 아무도 믿어주지 않는다. 우연한 기회에 그는 자기가 일하던 세탁장 벽에 구멍이 뚫려 있어 하수구를 통해 회부로 나갈 수 있다는 것을 알게 된다. 그는 같은 작업장 동료들에게 그 사실을 가르쳐준다. 동료들을 밖으로 탈출해 조폐 공사를 습격할 계획을 세운다. 그러나 코니의 고의적인 방해로 그 계획은 번번이 실패한다.
