Joran Sandal lives in a small Swedish town and works for the local newspaper after leaving a large publishing house in Stockholm. When taxi driver Inga-Britt Ekman is found shot dead, Joran sees an opportunity to regain his professional reputation. Following the trail of the murder, he discovers that Inga-Britt’s husband—her former boxer and now a police officer—was also killed.
As the investigation progresses, Joran starts receiving threats, left on a typewriter in the office of his friend and colleague, Bengt Håkansson, who had been in love with Inga-Britt.