Wisting and his team are brought in to investigate a horrific crime in Larvik, where an asylum seeker is found decapitated.

When a body turns up in the net of a local fisherman, a connection is drawn between two murders. Will this lead the detectives to Layla's remains? After a conversation with her brother, Line suspects that Wisting has been intimate with the head of the care center.

Maggie is forced to reveal information that she had previously kept secret from Wisting. The investigation takes a new turn, leading the detectives across the border into Sweden.

In Sweden, Maggie and Wisting find a previous victim in hiding, and they are dragged into a major police operation.