Varg Veum receives a surprise visit from a woman introducing herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse, has apparently vanished - moved without leaving an address. She doesn't answer her phone. And the police refuse to take her case seriously. Veum's investigation uncovers a series of carefully covered-up crimes and pent-up hatreds, and the trail leads to a gang of extreme bikers on the hunt for a group of people whose dark deeds are hidden by the anonymity of the Internet. And then things get personal...