When the police in Ängelholm are called to an apartment late at night, they are met with an unpleasant and macabre sight. A dead woman lies in her bedroom in a pool of blood. Outside the apartment, the police meet the woman's boyfriend. Scared, upset and with bloodied clothes, the man is taken in as a suspect. Thus begins a murder case where the police are faced with an investigation filled with broken relationships, jealousy and deadly hatred.

One night in late March 2023, a 26-year-old taxi driver in the Stockholm area is reported missing after his family has not heard from him for a couple of days. His car is found near a nature reserve outside Uppsala, but the man is gone. Barely a week later, the man is found, hanged and frozen to death in a tree, in the same nature reserve. This is where an intense and extensive police investigation begins, full of twists and turns that are as abrupt as they are unexpected. What really happened to the dead taxi driver?