Gunder Jomann had a book in which there was a picture of a beautiful Indian woman. Middle-aged and lonely, he decided to go to India and find a wife. Whilst he was there he met and married Poona Bai and Gunder returned to Norway, planning to meet Poona at the airport a fortnight later. As he was about to go and pick her up he heard that his sister Marie had been in a serious car accident and was in a coma. Pulled between his longing to meet his wife and fear for his sister's life he decides to go to the hospital and asks someone else to meet Poona. The following day the body of an Indian woman is found in a meadow. She'd been brutally bludgeoned to death.