A brutal assault on an autumn night, has left police officer Frida Paulsen’s father in a coma. She returns to her home village and her parents’ fruit farm and meets, after almost 20 years, chief detective Bjarne Haverkorn, who is now approaching retirement. Nothing seems to connect them but an old, unsolved murder of a young girl – for him a cold case; for her a nightmare from her childhood, for it was her who found the dead body of her friend. She has been silent for eighteen years, hiding a terrible secret – until another crime happens and the past seems to be catching up with her –