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When Maria Wern of the Gotland Police Department receives anonymous death threats, she and her colleagues begin a frantic search to track down the source. Following a violent assassination attempt, however, she is ordered off the island for her own protection. Together with a group of old girlfriends from school, she secretly heads off to the pristine nature reserve of Stora Karlsö Island.

A double murder sends Maria to Stockholm where she runs into a familiar face.

In the midst of the midsummer celebrations on the island of Gotland, a series of vicious murders take place with occult overtones. A man is found strung up alongside slaughtered animals; another is found sacrificed in his car in the middle of a summer meadow. The holiday paradise is shattered and soon attention falls on an old murder case involving a long-deceased killer that someone is clearly mimicking...

After intervening in a fist fight and getting beaten up herself, Maria heads the investigation of a woman who was murdered close to the place where Maria was assaulted. The murderer most likely witnessed what happened to Maria. The motifs oscillate between revenge for infidelity and hatred towards homosexuals, and as the number of murders increase so does Maria's frustration over the reluctance from neighbors and potential witnesses to collaborate in the investigation.

A flare is sent up at a house party and a girl is found unconscious on a couch. Music stops and a scream is heard from the docks, a girl is found floating in the water.

It’s Christmas on Gotland when the island is suddenly struck by an unspeakable tragedy — a high-school girl is found dead in the middle of a country road wearing a white Lucia gown. What at first appears to be an incomprehensible suicide soon proves to be something far more sinister, when behind the innocent facade it turns out that a group of girls at the local high school is harbouring dark secrets...