Uncompromising journalist Peter Verås pursues tips from an anonymous source about a scandal involving bribery and embezzlement at one of Norway's leading finance companies. When this leads to the suicide of a senior executive, who happens to be his brother Daniel, the grief-stricken Peter quits his investigative job at the Evening Times and takes up sports reporting. Until 5 years later, when he and his brother's widow Eva receive a mysterious posthumous message from her husband, implying that all is not as it seems. Then another executive, Åge Haugen, commits suicide in front of him, saying the word "Abraham."

Peter and Vibeke receive an incriminating video from an anonymous source. After finding that both suicides were in possession of paintings referring to child offering in the Bible, Peter is sure that someone pushed them to suicide out of concern for the safety of their children. Peter's estranged nephew Andreas also starts to dig into his late father's past. At this point, attention turns to how financier Tom Lied rose so quickly to become one of Norway's wealthiest men.