Фильм рассказывает о стокгольмском таксисте, когда-то решившим подработать не совсем честным путем, он согласился на предложение босса торговать кокаином. В это криминальное дело оказались замешаны: югославская мафия, сбежавший из тюрьмы латиноамериканец, на эту же мафию работавший и серб, мечтающий хоть каким-либо способом покончить с криминалом. И с каждым разом история в чем-то повторяется, и новый сюжет тянет за собой мафию и кокаин, и их проклятые 100 миллионов...
Сорок лет назад Харриет Вангер бесследно пропала на острове, принадлежащем могущественному клану Вангер. Ее тело так и не было найдено, но ее дядя убежден, что это убийство и что убийца является членом его собственной, тесно сплоченной и неблагополучной семьи. Он нанимает опального журналиста Микаэля Блумквиста и татуированную хакершу Лисбет Саландер для проведения расследования.
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.
Choir leader Ylva and her choir are on a bus bound for Italy. Some of the members on the bus are looking forward to meeting the local mayor, others are just hoping for a free vacation, and yet a few more are still thinking that they're headed to Italy to sing. Common to them all is that they are more than happy to jump on this chance to escape their every day lives. Ylva too is one them. She wants to get away as soon as possible because she caught her husband in bed with the babysitter. She'll find that the young Erik and Ruben who join the choir for her are more than willing to offer her an adventure. The rest is made up of a sex-crowded pair, the couple who have not been with each other for years, the divorced woman who long for a man and the lesbian who did not dare come out.
