On a dramatic midsummer night, Dicte discovers a torched car on her neighbor’s driveway. Inside the house, she finds a dead 52-year-old Danish teacher, Inger Gravgård, who looks like she has committed suicide. But Dicte quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems – neither the cause of death, nor the life Inger lived outwardly. When Dicte starts to dig around, she pieces together a portrait of a woman with fervent religious beliefs, a morbid family history and a perverse sexuality. Inger’s daughter, Lise, hates her mother because she let her boyfriend abuse her sexually. Her boyfriend is Anders Munk, the now incarcerated leader of the sect Children of Love. Dicte manages to find the missing Lise, sequestered away from the authorities, and she discovers yet again, that, here too, all is not what it seems.
As Dicte pokes into Inger’s past for clues, her own past unexpectedly comes calling. Her close friend Anne finds the social security number of the boy Dicte gave up for adoption twenty-four years earlier. Now she can finally put her mind at ease and find out what happened to him. If she dares.
A reclusive student in Inger’s class, Mikkel, becomes the subject of a police investigation. He and Inger had a close relationship. When the authorities unearth a love letter and one of his footprints outside Inger’s house, they are confident that the case is solved – even though Mikkel insists that there was another man in the house that day.
Ultimately, both the detectives and Dicte’s hunches prove wrong when a fresh female corpse turns up. Fingerprints taken at both crime scenes match. The murderer has struck again.
Dicte was broadcast on SBS ONE at Monday 6 March 2017, 13:00.