Jon Michelet’s famous hero Vilhelm Thygesen has taken several punches in his life. To get some rest he stays up in the mountains. But down in Oslo things are happening that has important consequences for his life. A woman is found murdered in the park. The police arrests the innocent Thygesen for the murder.

Behind it all is a terrible story of a shipowner threatened by bankruptcy and is desparate to find a way out, the strange disappearance of two Pakistani workers, and a rental killer who is starting to follow his own agenda.