At one of Copenhagen's leading medical centers, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of a patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy found the body of a dead woman, drained of all the blood in her body. What's the connection? Recovering from a difficult divorce, detective Jeppe Kørner takes the case, while his partner Anette Werner is at home on maternity leave. Anette does some freelance sleuthing, but in this sequel to The Tenant, it exposes her to dangers she can't even fathom.