Can you steal a person's life? A car drives over the quayside in the port of Helsingborg after a violent car chase. When the driver is autopsied, it turns out that he has already been dead for two months and during that time has been kept frozen. This is the prelude to Fabian Risk's first major investigation since the events in Sacrifice Without a Face two years earlier. An investigation where he fights against the clock to find the solution before the next victim ends up in the freezer.