On Friday, August 28, 1981, six-year-old Marianne went to the store to buy ice cream and candy. Then she just disappeared. In broad daylight. The Marianne case is referred to as one of Norway's biggest disappearance mysteries.
For 4 days, the local police have led a search operation without result. The whole of Risør is looking for Marianne and panic is spreading in the small village. Kripos arrives and starts a huge mapping job, the tracks start to get cold.
Autumn 81: Kripos and Risør are convinced that they have the perpetrator, but after 8 months in custody, he is released. What really happened here? Several years later Kripos investigator Ola Thune turning the pile. Can he find something?
Two independent tips about a man is received - this man is said to have confessed to killing Marianne. What is this all about? Several years earlier, there was also another who confessed to the murder.
May 1990: A man is out fishing in Holletjenna near Grimstad. He catches a jelly-like lump and dark hairs after the hook hits the bottom. The only missing person in the area is Marianne. The police suspect that there may be a corpse.
The editors are contacted by, Jørn Lier Horst. He has received tips about a man he thinks the editors should investigate further. The editors discover some striking information, and a possible link to another missing person case.
