18-year-old Ndella Jack has just returned home from her honeymoon with her husband. What was supposed to be the beginning of their life together comes to an abrupt end instead, when they are subjected to a brutal attack.

The psychologist Helena Bering disappears without a trace in the middle of the day on August 18, 2004. She has just finished a meeting with a client at the reception in central Stockholm when suddenly all traces of her cease.