Late in the evening, a journalist and his girlfriend are shot in their apartment—people who had been studying channels for supplying sex slaves to Sweden from Eastern Europe. Among the clients of this rather dubious business are representatives of powerful structures. It seems obvious which circles benefited from the deaths of these two.
Mikael Blomkvist begins his own investigation into the death of his colleagues and friends and suddenly learns that in the murder he is suspected of—his longtime acquaintance Lisbeth Salander, the strangest girl in the world—prone to playing with fire, for example, dousing it with gasoline. Across Sweden, a hunt is underway for the “killer-psychopath,” but Lisbeth is not afraid to challenge anyone—whether it’s the mafia, public structures, or even death itself.