At Stockholm Central Station, a girl is abducted from a fast train. The police are at a loss, but the child seems to vanish as if into thin air.
At the other end of Sweden, a young woman is hiding. She knows perfectly well why the girl disappeared and is preparing for yet another escape.
Meanwhile, another child vanishes. Before Fredrika Bergman and the other members of Commissioner Alex Recht’s investigative team lies an almost impossible task—the criminal is elusive, and his motives are unfathomable. Only at the cost of numerous errors does the team finally come upon his trail, at the end of which—among other things—they will have to learn this: in life, unlike in the fairy tale, Cinderella can turn into a real monster.