A little girl goes missing. She arrives back home later the same day. She’s fine but on her walk home she and Raymond, a man who has Downs Syndrome, see a dead naked girl/woman on the ground along a tourist hiking path near the water. Annie. She is a local 15 year old girl who everyone seems to like. Who would have killed her? There are a few possible suspects, starting with Raymond, then her sort of boyfriend Halvor, her half-sister’s father Axel, and a few others. We learn about many people in this little tight knit Norwegian town. Inspector Sejer and his sidekick Skarre investigate.

Annie seemed to have a personality change recently and Sejer thinks that may be the key to the investigation. She became more quiet, quit her sports team, quit babysitting, spent less time with Halvor. The more they look into Annie’s past as well as the lives of others in the community a situation pops out as maybe being the key. Is it? What happened to the young boy Eskil? Will this lead Sejer to the killer.