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When Inspector Kurt Wallander is summoned to an isolated farmhouse one freezing January morning he thinks that it will be nothing more than a routine call-out. Instead he finds that the elderly farmer, Johannes Lövgren, has been brutally killed and his wife is near death. All that Maria Lövgren can tell the investigators before she too dies is that the killers were foreign. When the press get hold of this there's a tide of racial hatred, and Wallander is left with a double murder to solve as well as the responsibility for the protection of an unknown number of asylum seekers.