Stopping to use a cash machine one evening a man falls to the ground dead A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team lonely & frustrated Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective & somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move