Journalist Matilda Gustavsson tells how she carefully prepared her disclosure. We also meet one of the women who was seduced by Jean-Claude Arnault, but who would later discover something terrible.
As the scandal breaks, a journalist wonders why no one reacted when he tried to expose Jean-Claude Arnault almost 20 years earlier. Does anyone really want to admit to being a sex offender?
18 women come forward in Dagens Nyheter and reveal that they have been sexually exploited by a man connected to the Swedish Academy, the institution responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A battle rages between two factions within the Swedish Academy, which now have to deal with the fact that they have had a sexual offender in their vicinity. At the same time, Jean-Claude Arnault is charged with two counts of rape.