David and his gay friends celebrate his 25th birthday with a nightly swim at the park. The good mood quickly changes after two straight couples walk by and laugh. But was the laughter directed at them, or at something else?
Elisabeth escapes her life in Stockholm due to a family tragedy, to take care of a holiday village. An actress, Cecilia, is with a film team on Fårö. On the island, they are confronted with their lives and faced with their most difficult choices ever.
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path.
Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.
Na Europa, em Haag, está assumindo um novo chefe, o superintendente da polícia sueca Ola Sellberg, que pretende investir pesado contra o crime organizado que ataca agora as grandes instituições capitalistas e que por hora sobrevive incólume diante de um sistema judiciário ineficiente. Enquanto isso, em Londres, a corretora Rebecca Akerstm, descobre que seu noivo, Phoeniz Kane, um gênio das finanças, está seriamente envolvido com o crime. Temendo por sua vida, ela reúne provas das ações ilegais de Kane e procura por proteção. E num encontro entre amigos, Falk testemunha o assassinato a sangue frio de seu mentor Selberg, tornando-se a questão agora de ordem pessoal.
