Part 1 of 10. At the height of the election campaign attorney general's chief of staff disappears swithout a trace. Her replacement Elin Hammar is thrown immediately into a web of lies and conspiracies when she tries to find out what happened. At the same time the xenophobic Security Party is moving toward success. In Uddevalla the party's local representative, Annika Nilsson, is preparing for a town-square meeting, despite her son's protests.

Part 3 of 10. The cracks in the government grow when trying to deal with the terrorist threat from Veritas. Cracks that might explain what happened to Sarah. The more Elin digs, the more the tracks point back to Rosenbad. While looking for consolation online, Sofia ends up on the forums where the murder of her mother is blamed on immigration.