In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
Ida lives hard and fast with too much drinking and a string of boyfriends, Sandor has very few friends and his mother insists that he practices ballet. They meet in a chat room and despite appearances they discover they have much in common. Sandor and Ida lives in different cities and when Sandor unexpectedly visits her it ends with disaster.
A man is found executed in the harbor. Irene Huss and her team are put on the case and everything points to a deal in the underworld. But eventually Irene realizes that the case has a personal connection. After a bombing, she is suddenly drawn into a blackmailing scheme where no one is safe - least of all her family. The police and prosecutors are powerless against the criminal gangs and Irene is finally forced to take matters into her own hands...
