

Johan Falk, a former officer in the national force and now a criminal inspector at the Sentrum Police Department in Gothenburg, is involved in a shooting incident in a street near Nordstan, just after the shops closed on Christmas Eve. He makes a heroic effort, among other things saving the life of a child, but is then drawn into a spiral of nightmare-like events that leads to him being prosecuted himself. He sees no other way out than to flee. He takes matters into his own hands in search of the truth and is thus wanted and hunted by his own colleagues.