Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the precocious "femme fatale" who admired as well as bullied Jonna, but experienced sexual assault as a young girl. As Nore struggles to reclaim the narrative for herself, a genuine friendship develops.
