A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.

In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor. Martin Beck and his police team initially suspect a highly criminal MC-leader of the attack, but one pretty soon has to re-evaluate the case once the MC-leader is found murdered in a similar wooden box. Soon, more wooden boxes are found and the police realize that they are part of a cat and mouse game with a crazy serial killer. The investigation soon shows that there is a vague connection between the victims in the shape of a 9 year old event, but what Martin Beck does not suspect is that his own life too is at stake, as the murderer has chosen him as the next victim.

Sam works as a priest in a small town. He has distanced himself from a background of violence, but when a criminal gang moves to the village and attracts the youth, he is suddenly faced with the choice of retreating or acting. He retreats and a boy is seriously injured. Finally, he finds himself forced to intervene, and the group encounters resistance they could not have imagined.

Antonio Moro works for gangster boss Thomas Ståhl. He lives happily with his girlfriend Tanya who is expecting their child. Antonio's future looks bright, until one evening when he is ordered to kill a person who is close to all of them.