Synopsis

A decade after the discovery of lawyer Anne Dragsholm's death at a memorial dedicated to the Second World War, her husband is in police custody, implicated in her murder. However, the chief investigator calls upon Sarah Lund, who has recently transferred from the crime squad, to return to Copenhagen and examine the case. Concurrently, a young politician ascends to the ministry of justice following the incapacitation of his predecessor, and a prisoner petitions for parole, hoping to reunite with