A few months have passed since the bombing at the police station. At the nursing home where a police officer is being rehabilitated, the staff make a horrific discovery. An acquaintance returns from the dead and Nora is drawn into the investigation in an unexpected way.

Friends from the past meet in the archipelago, and Nora's daughter Anna comes home. In the summer greenery, a battered boat dealer is discovered. Alexander is back, both at work and in Nora's life, but there is something he cannot tell.