Her new case begins for Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz with a terrible situation: An unknown man overwhelms Charlotte Lindholm, puts a knife to her neck and talks confusedly about "voices in his head" and that someone is chasing him. When the situation escalates, Anaïs Schmitz has to decide in a split second: kill the man or risk Charlotte's life. The further investigations lead the two commissioners to a second body and an apparently failed mission abroad by the army in Mali ...