The chair of the Malmo city council is found dead right on the Danish-Swedish border on the รresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo - the corpse cut in half at the waistline. Detective Saga Norรฉn of Malmo CID is applied to the case and soon learns that the lower half of the corpse belongs to a yet unknown Danish woman. She is forced to team up with her Danish colleague Martin Rohde, who is slightly irritated by her unusual manners. At the same time, Gรถran Sรถringer is brought to Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet to receive a heart transplant.