Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West
German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two
hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a
Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the
case find their investigation hastily shelved by a corrupt senior
investigator. Ten years later: Lars Johansson, having just joined the
Swedish Security Police, decides to tie up a few loose ends left behind
by his predecessor: specifically, two files on Swedes who had allegedly
collaborated on the 1975 takeover of the West German embassy, one of
whom turned out to be the murder victim in 1989. Johansson reopens the
investigation and follows the leads--right up to the doorstep of
Sweden's newly minted minister of justice.