Det. Supt. Anders Knutas and his team look into the murder of the alcoholic former news photographer Henry Dahlstr m. In the course of their investigation, they discover evidence not only that the man maintained a good income doing illegal repair work for most of Gotland's leading citizens but that his death may somehow be linked to missing 14-year-old Fanny Jansson. Meanwhile, Johan Berg, a Stockholm news reporter, tries to keep his bosses interested in Dahlstr m's murder so he can take trips to Gotland to visit his married lover, Emma Winarve.