A bright June morning. A mother and daughter are run over and killed on the road to Uppsala. Was it an accident or deliberate attack? That same morning the deceased woman's husband also disappears. He recently bought a property in the Dominican Republic, but when a macabre discovery is made in a nearby forest it becomes clear he hasn't departed for sunnier climes.

It is up to Inspector Ann Lindell to piece together the clues and motives that tore this family apart.