At the end of a bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters are shaken by a grisly discovery. Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with frenzied brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Dropped from the case thanks to a jealous rival, Rebecka Martinsson stands alone against a killer, spawned by a horrifying crime that festers after one hundred years on ice.