["An ideal intellectual thriller from a truly powerful Swedish writer, an August Prize laureate—Carl-Johan Wählgren."
On a warm June evening of 1970, a father goes into the subway with his two sons. He intends to descend to the station by elevator, but the older son really wants to run down the stairs. A certain lady offers to accompany the boy. The father agrees, but when he steps onto the platform, it is completely empty. The subway train has just left the station…
In 2012, Stockholm. Danny Katz, who had had trouble with the law since childhood, has long since left his criminal past behind. By accident, he becomes a witness to and participant in very strange events that lead to the murder of a woman and force him to hide from the police once again. Danny realizes that he’s been set up. And now he’ll have to work hard to prove his innocence and expose the real murderer…" ]