teacher Eva Vendel is found hanged in her own hallway. In addition, someone nailed two thick nails in the palms. Why was a woman who has no enemies and why in such a brutal way?

Shortly thereafter, a girl with diabetes is kidnapped from the kindergarten. The relatives of both victims then receive anonymous letters with a biblical quote whose common motif is the promise of a kind of liberation.

But what did Eva Vendel and five -year -old Ellen need to free? And who is the liberator who sent the letters?

Criminal Inspector Idun Lind must find out why the woman was murdered and whether the kidnapping and murder were related. Together with a colleague from the Department of Serious Crimes, he will begin to search much more complicated in the past than it seemed first. The investigation will take it until the 1990s, to the dark history of the abused viola and its two children looking for a refuge for a religious congregation in Norrbotten.

Pastor Mattias Selberg and his wife Ellenor accepted the family and offered her a new home on their farm. A new hope for a better future awoke in Viole, but soon caught up with the fact that she couldn't hide from.