Detective Louise Rick is on holiday in Thailand when she gets a panicked call from her father. Mikkel, Louise's brother, has attempted suicide. His wife Trine has left him, and no one has heard from her in three days. Meanwhile, the media in Louise's hometown of Osted is carrying non-stop coverage about Susan Dahlgaard, a local schoolgirl who went missing over a decade earlier and whose body has just been discovered in a remote forest on the nearby island of Borhnholm. With her beloved brother Mikkel's life hanging in the balance, the investigation becomes devastatingly personal for Louise.