Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.
Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community. But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social exclusion, group pressure, brainwashing, fanaticism and both more and less religiously sanctioned left-wing chatter end in murder and grief.
An unexpected connection between a decadent aristocrat, with past nazi-affiliations, and a german-jewish doctor who is practicing illegally, leads to the retrieval of a repressed memory from the military service on the German transports through Sweden. Authentic archive material is interwoven with an expressionistic Stockholm. A noir from the neutral Swedish 1940s.
