The Factory

A dead newborn. Missing woman. Policewoman Hanna Vester sets out to unravel a shocking mystery that goes far beyond the Swedish town of Haparanda...

After a long absence, Hannah Wester returns to work and the first case is not long in coming. A dead baby is found in a cemetery where victims of the cholera epidemic are buried. Who is the mother? Why did she abandon her child? And where did she go?

Katya, a hired assassin, is sent on an important mission in Haparanda: to track down two elderly women who have escaped from a secluded location where they have been kept under lock and key.

During a TV interview, an ambitious young politician pulls back the curtain on his personal life, saying that he and his wife will become parents. That evening, a female voice calls him and threatens in broken English to reveal who the mother who carried his baby actually is.

In the small northern Swedish town, a criminal network operates that trades in human fates. Is it in the power of a provincial policewoman to take a stand against an organisation for which human life is measured only in money?