Police inspector Axel Steen is haunted by memories that won’t let him alone. During a particular hot summer, a reported rape reopens a cold case, the unsolved murder of an eighteen-year-old girl who was strangled and fished out of a lake in Ørstedspark, the trendiest green space in Copenhagen. Axel’s obsession with this case had destroyed his marriage four years earlier and almost cost his daughter her life. A quick comparison of similar cases that had been overlooked due to sloppy police work and the victims’ reluctance to talk turns out to be all it takes for Axel to connect the dots in a pattern amounting to twelve years of rapes and one murder. This could well be the biggest case the crime division had ever seen. Axel’s pursuit of a serial killer through the dark maze of streets in Copenhagen’s hip Nørrebro quarter becomes a matter of life and death to the inspector. Driven by a desire to right an old wrong, Axel launches into his manhunt fueled by the rage along with some unorthodox procedure - that both criminals and his own colleagues know all too well. He’s a cop who smokes joints, constantly afraid of dying; a cop who wants to put an end to all those ghastly stories of abuse and abandonment, in the hopes of restoring law and order, on the streets - and in his own soul.
