AnnikaBengtzon is working as a summer intern at the newspaper Kvällspressen.Assigned to screening crank phone calls on the tip line in hopes ofgetting an occasional valid news break, Annika receives an anonymous tipabout the nude corpse of a young girl in a public park. The girl hasbeen raped and killed. Annika provides a strong story that earns heraccolades from her boss.As the plot develops, the focus of theinvestigation shifts from the victim’s lover, the owner of the upscalesex club where she worked, to an important government minister who keepsa secret apartment near the park. Delving into the bureaucrat’s alibi,Annika discovers that he is somehow involved in the cover up of thereappearance of a missing archive that could shake the foundation of theruling Social Democrats, concerning an illegal espionage operation longsince