Detective Inspector for homicide,
Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National
Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random
killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on
Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the
shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen.
When Zeuthen's 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the
investigation takes on a different dimension as it soon becomes clear
that her disappearance is linked to the murder of a young girl in
Jutland some years earlier.
Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the
more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs
Zeeland's backing.
Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie's perpetrator before it's too late.
And can she finally face the demons that have long haunted her?