Joachim Fjelstrup

In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree.

After a car accident kills her mother, a 17-year-old girl moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown-up sons. While her new home proves safe and comforting, the family also leads a life of crime outside of those walls.