Synopsis

A wave of burglaries has washed over Ystad. In response, a group of neighbors in the affected area formed a neighborhood watch. During one of their nightly patrols, they observed a suspicious man and subjected him to a brutal assault. The following morning, both the man and his vehicle had vanished. The Ystad police were soon contacted by a distraught Polish woman reporting her husband missing. The case was initially assigned low priority, but Wallander decided to investigate further. He quic