07. An Event in Autumn
Together with his partner Vanja, Wallander has bought a cozy house by the sea. The moving boxes have not yet been unpacked when his dog Jussi finds the buried remains of a woman's body in the front garden. The detective actually wanted to focus more on his private life, but the shocking incident immediately awakens all his criminal instincts. He suspects the previous occupant of the house, Jan Petrus, a shady pimp who picks up young prostitutes and forces them into prostitution.
His daughter Ellika has been missing for ten years - has Wallander found her body? Without a search warrant, the detective enters Petrus' house and puts his accompanying colleague Anne-Britt in a precarious situation: in self-defense, she has to shoot two vicious guard dogs and is then so badly injured by the angry owner with a hammer that she falls into a coma. To make matters worse, it turns out that Ellika is alive - the detective had the wrong man in his sights. But the lost daughter leads Wallander onto the trail of his neighbor Fredrik. With the lonely widower, the detective surprisingly also finds the key to a second case that he had previously been struggling with.
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