Carina Dymek is on fast track for promotion at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a stranger and given a USB stick. Unwittingly, she delivers a time bomb of classified information. Bente Jensen is tasked with investigating how Dymek gained access to the confidential report but he begins to suspect she is a red herring caught in a far wider net: one in which civil rights are sacrificed to national security.