One night Detective Inspector Irene Huss is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the pavement in fornt of his luxurious aprtment. A wealthy financier, he was connected through an old-boys' network to the first families of Sweden. But the "society suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, Huss tangles with motorcycle gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis, a cross-section of Sweden's Disaffected, until ultimately she discovers which of the suspects actually killed the Swedish millionaire. And why.