In 1969, six very diverse young people in the old university city of  Uppsala are embarking on their studies. Two are brother and a sister. Two are young men who have just done national service together. One is a class warrior, one a theology student, one a would-be entrepreneur, and one a a future journalist. There are two odd young people who may well be geniuses. The group’s lives become inextricably intertwined, but a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at university is over, it also signals the end of something else.

Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before.