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Deeper… and Deeper ...
It’s midsummer in Sweden, a celebration that no Swede can ignore. It’s summer, the sun is shining, it’s hot … it makes you want to go on holiday and chill on the beach. Alcohol flows freely … people eat traditional dishes – it’s the day of the year throughout the country.
At this time of year, a camp is held for highly gifted young people, where they can show what ideas they have, what inventions they are working on, what start-ups they want to found. It’s great fun, even if the competition is fierce, of course.
Four young people from this camp are enjoying their free time, going on a hike and running along a beach. A photographer looking for a midsummer motif happens to pass by and takes the photo of the year of these young, good-looking people fooling around, doing handstands, playfully chasing each other … The sky is blue, the sun is shining …
… and then they simply disappear. Vanish into thin air, without a trace, without any real witnesses to what happened. All that remains is the photographer’s midsummer picture, which appears in all the newspapers. They are only reported missing later … at the camp.
After many years, it is a cold case, unsolved like so many others. There were and still are many theories about what happened, but there is no evidence or witnesses to the events of that day on the beach.
Well, something does happen in the following years, now and then … Body parts are found or sent to the families of the missing persons. Then a body turns up … Everything becomes more and more mysterious.
Finally, it is decided to reopen the cold case. The case goes to Stina Borglund, former head of the national cold case unit. Stina loves cases like this, which colleagues have been struggling with for years, even decades. She always approaches these challenges in her own special way, looking for new perspectives on the unsolved case. Her team follows her lead – or not.
Stina is in her 30s and has problems. Since childhood, she has struggled with Asperger’s syndrome and a slight malfunction of the pituitary gland. This leads to limitations in social interaction … and Stina takes a cocktail of medications every day to compensate. But at the same time, she feels that these medications limit her when it comes to analysing a case, recognising details and making connections. So she sometimes simply skips her medication – which causes her to rub people the wrong way.
In any case, Stina is an excellent investigator and her team helps her tackle and solve these old cases. But she rubs her team the wrong way too … In addition, the clash between Stina and her team and the local investigators who originally handled the cases and are still searching and analysing in some cases usually does not end well. The intervention of the cold case unit is not necessarily viewed positively. Strings are being pulled behind the scenes to hinder Stina and the team … because colleagues are afraid of looking bad.
Despite all her successes, Stina is not really recognised. It even goes so far that she is temporarily transferred to an internal department because of her illness and her team is disbanded after a case is solved but ends with negative consequences. It goes so far that the need for a cold case unit is no longer seen.
But then a cold case comes up, will gain media interest soon – and the police bosses have no choice but to bring Stina back to solve the tricky case. Stina succeeds and is rehabilitated … and then finds herself working as a special investigator for the public prosecutor’s office.
At the beginning, I described a case that Stina seemed predestined to solve. She does indeed find out what happened back then – and it’s quite surprising. There are similar cases – mysterious, with dead bodies, missing persons, survivors who lie … Time and again, brutality plays a role, crimes that no one would like to see and hear about. Human depravity comes to light that gives you nightmares. Even Stina and her team are not immune to this.