Synopsis

With the national election imminent, the town square of Ystad is awash in posters featuring Kenneth Nillson, the local Labour Party candidate. His campaign centers on addressing anxieties surrounding immigration, framed as a mission to restore Skåne’s reputation and combat accusations of racism. Simultaneously, a train pulls into the station in Gdańsk, Poland. There, police discover an African man with a severely disfigured face. The victim had been murdered in Ystad, the train's origin point