In the high mountains, far from people and roads, one by one girls disappear. Sixteen-year-old Rebekka is one of the missing.
Journalist Smilla, who once lost a close friend here, takes on the investigation and quickly finds frightening parallels between the past and the present.
Her trail leads her to the secluded settlement “Jacob’s Ladder” — a closed community living by strict rules and wary of any outside interference. As the conflict between the village and the city intensifies, Smilla gets closer to a revelation that could overturn familiar roles—forcing people to look anew at who here is the victim and who is the culprit.