一名农夫被心爱的马踢死,养马人对此极力否认,认为这是绝不可能发生的事情,但随着警方对农夫的尸体进行检验之后,新的线索浮出水面。 邻居证明农夫平时是自己独居的。但曾经有个神秘的女人在他有过停留。这名女子是他在征友栏认识的。于是警方开始对该名女子进行了紧锣密鼓的追捕。但却一无所获。直到沃兰德探长以及他的女儿琳达发现,该名女子在农夫死前一天已领光他在银行的积蓄。A horse breeder is found dead, and almost everything proves that he is been kicked by his horse. But the post-mortem shows the opposite, the horse breeder had been hit to death and that is a case for Kurt Wallander. The neighbors confirms that he lived alone, but he had visits from a mysterious woman several times. An amazing thing on the farm shows a hole new side of the horse feeder and somewhere, in the beautiful state of Skåne, there's a dark world that didn't want to see the daylight.