Åsa Widéen

Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.

A la frontière entre la Suède et le Danemark, au beau milieu d'un pont, est retrouvé le corps d'une femme, vraisemblablement assassinée. Les polices suédoises et danoises sont alors dépêchées sur les lieux. Mais l'affaire prend une tournure particulièrement glauque et étonnante lorsque les enquêteurs découvrent qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un seul mais de deux cadavres, coupés en deux à la taille, qui ont été assemblés pour n'en faire qu'un...

An eccentric millionaire dies at a manor in Dalarna in Sweden, leaving behind three sons and a mistress. One of four parallel stories about parents and children. Four sides of Sweden. Four shades of brown.