A deep lake in Norway holds a terrible secret - Henning Juul is investigating. What happened on the day little Jonas lost his life in an apartment fire? This question haunts reporter Henning Juul like a curse until he gets so close to the answer that he is shot at in broad daylight by contract killers. Who are these men? What connection do they have to the long-ago murder of an elderly woman, which stalled the investigation? And why does the name of Henning Juul's sister appear in the old files? Henning Juul's own life hangs by a thread as he solves his most personal case...