A nine-year-old girl disappears on her way home from school. At night, a small boy is abducted from his bed. Soon, he is returned to his mother—dead, with a note: “Get what you deserve.” Then the third child vanishes: he is stolen from an overcrowded bus in the very center of Oslo. It seems the criminal is elusive.
Inspector of the Criminal Police Ingvar Stube understands that delay will mean new victims, and he takes on a young specialist in law and psychology as an assistant—Inger Vik, with experience working for the FBI. He still doesn’t know that Inger’s past will weave into one terrible story together with the case of child abductions...