Jednoho chladného lednového dne je v ospalé vesnici na severu Švédska nalezena oběť brutální vraždy. Celá víska je hrozivě klidná a opuštěná. A tiché domky vzápětí vydají své tajemství: zločin, jaký švédská historie nepamatuje.
Když se o masakru dočte soudkyně Birgitta Roslinová, uvědomí si, že ji s místem pojí rodinná vazba, a rozhodne se pátrat na vlastní pěst. Jejími jedinými vodítky jsou přitom deník z 19. století a červená stuha nalezená v nedalekém lese.
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Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia.

At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance and made his way to the coast. Upon arrival in the city, Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life.

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila has travelled with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home.

On an expedition to the Kalahari Desert, Hans Begler, a young entomologist, finds a small boy whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Begler takes the traumatised child home to Sweden and plans to civilise him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new life in the cold and snow, so easily.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly 12 years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. Now his past is about to catch up with him.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted.

Every morning retired naval officer Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. A few months earlier, at Hakan's 75th birthday party, he was eager to talk to detective Kurt Wallander about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance?

Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect.

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, a pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. But he soon discovers that the chain of events leading to her disappearance began far away in South African.