 A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is sexually assaulted and murdered in Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. When one is found drowned, Olso sends Nicholas Ramm to help - a world-weary detective whose investigative techniques are sometimes unconventional. Ramm runs into brick walls; people won t help him. Meanwhile, Niklas, the younger brother of the dead and missing suspects, faces constant hazing at school simply for being from the wrong family. Can Ramm sort things out, find the girl s killer, and win the lad and his family some respite from small-town cruelty?