Fifteen years ago a teenage girl is assaulted and raped as she picks flowers. Cut to the present and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. At the same time a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman along with Alex Recht's federal investigation unit is assigned to the seemingly-unconnected cases. The investigations lead to a clandestine people-smuggling network that runs back to the 1980s to a crime that went unreported but whose consequences will reach further than anyone ever expected