Ida Joner gets on her brandnew bike and sets off toward town. A goodnaturedhappy girl she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirtyfive minutesafter Ida ... » 

Ida Joner gets on her brandnew bike and sets off toward town. A goodnaturedhappy girl she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirtyfive minutesafter Ida should have come home her mother starts to worry. She phones storeowners Idas friends anyone who could have seen her. But no one has.Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork a local character who lives alone andhasnt spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weeklyalthough shes sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A mothers worstnightmare in either case to lose a child or to think a child capable ofmurder. As Idas relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzysurrounding the case begins Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm andreassuring self. But hes puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest casehes seen in years. «