On a cold April day, Eva Magnus and her little daughter discover a dead man floating in the river. But Eva doesn't call the police, she instead tries to block out the sight of the dead man in terror. Why?
When the police find the man, who has been stabbed to death, the investigation ends up on the desk of Criminal Inspector Konrad Sejer. At the same time, he is unraveling a murder of a prostitute that happened only a few days earlier. Sejer soon sees several connections between the murders. Among other things, one name returns — Eva Magnus.