Military exercises in Ystad make solving five murders difficult. To make things worse, Kurt finds one of the murdered women was a school friend and the first girl he had ever kissed.
Wallander interviews a couple about their stolen dog. The following day the couple are tortured and brutally murdered. Similar deaths follow and Wallander and his team have to find out whether there is an underlying connection in the deaths and whether three missing army conscripts are involved.—mangos47