In the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagena�TMs leading medical centers, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on his route stumbles upon the naked body of a dead woman lying in a fountain. Cause of death? Exsanguination a�" the draining of all the blood in her body. Investigator Jeppe KA rner takes on the case. As the investigation ventures into dark corners, it uncovers the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutions a�" all the more shocking for their depravity a�" and what Jeppe discovers will turn his blood as cold as ice.