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A little girl is apparently abducted after leaving her seemingly unpleasant home. She stops for a piece of candy from a friendly grocer and the next thing we see is her bike being thrown into a pond. Kurt Wallander is sensitive to this case because he had unsuccessfully investigated a woman whose daughter had disappeared years before. He went after the mother at the time. The child was never found, but the mother was exonerated. She has lived in seclusion for years, working through evidence she has accumulated. The problem that presents itself is that the missing girl's father is a hothead and he and the mother fight tooth and nail. The key to many of these mysteries is the ability to look outside the box. A female consultant is brought in, having had successes in recovering children, but she is by-the-book and inflexible and so she clashes with Kurt. There are intriguing events and this episode holds our interest very well.