Police investigator Harinder Singh reluctantly returns to the small town he grew up in to assist local police in solving a murder case. The half-Indian Singh was never fully accepted in Elvestad, and the meeting with the hometown brings old conflicts to the surface. Much is about the same in the town he left. The Davidsen family are still the elite and owners of Elvestad’s cornerstone company.

But now the factory director’s son, Axel, has been killed. Twenty months earlier, a young girl who frequented the same gang as Axel also disappeared without a trace. Singh soon finds out that many people have something to hide, and that far from everyone tells the truth about where they were on the night of the murder.