When 25-year-old Emelie is found murdered in her north Stockholm apartment -the same week that her violent ex-partner and her son's father is released from prison -Detective Vanessa Frank seems to glimpse that the culprit is clear. But there is something about the suspect that gives Frank the impression that something is missing. Who else could attack the young woman so frantically, an attack that left her with more than twenty stabs to the stomach?