An eleven-year-old girl, Magda, has disappeared. Her mother Åsa works every clue, obsessively trying to solve the mystery. Is she concerned or coldly delusional? Martin, Magda’s father, is a publisher and unfaithful husband. Did he abduct Magda, or has he simply been neglectful in the face of his own obsessions? Tom is Martin’s close colleague. Is he ambitious, or an infatuated stalker, trying to gain his hero’s approval? Finally, Katja is Tom’s partner, a school nurse and rejected writer. Is she protective of her students, or keeping information secret in order to move her own life forward?
Through these four voices the reader gains insight into dark obsessions, powerful secrets, and the labyrinthine nature of language itself. Each character’s actions has an effect on the others’, in incredibly surprising ways. This is a powerful psychological thriller that will get under your skin and haunt you well beyond its final, shocking conclusion.