After eighteen-year-old Samuel finds himself in the middle of a drug deal gone wrong, he is forced to leave home in a hurry.

Heading south, he finds refuge in a sleepy coastal town, working as a live-in assistant to the son of a wealthy family. When the body of a young man washes up in Stockholm's southern archipelago, investigator Manfred Olsson is called in to work the case.

With his two-year-old daughter in a coma, he is reluctant to leave her bedside - but once another body is discovered, his search for the killer intensifies. As Samuel adjusts to life under the radar, he begins to feel safe, even with a gang out for blood and the police on his trail.

But it isn't long before he realises that his sanctuary may be home to a deadly secret.