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Private Notes
Now a grandfather, Kurt Wallander works to get closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When a retired Commander, who is also Linda's father-in-law, suddenly disappears, Wallander is drawn into a case that takes him back to the Cold War and the 1976 Stockholm archipelago submarine incident. Wallander is faced with the question: what is most important - the truth or family?
Kurt is back at the police station after his suspension, and now working on the case of a missing 8-year-old girl. All that remains is a piece of candy and her bike. Desperate to find the girl alive, Kurt must work fast. But the parents are involved in a child custody dispute, with the father planning to take the girl with him back to his native Chile.
Kurt becomes emotionally involved in the case of Amanda, a young girl who comes to the police station to report her mother Julia missing.
When Julia's badly burned body is found on the beach near the family villa, Kurt suspect's Amanda's father Erik - the broken family as his motive. But Erik seems to be protecting someone: there's a surveillance film on Julia's computer, and he knows things he doesn't seem keen to disclose. Martinsson is becoming worried about Kurt increasing memory problems - he forgets people's names and where he leaves things. Is he really suitable for such a serious investigation? Linda is not worried, but is she turning a blind eye to the obvious?
Kurt sees a doctor for his memory problems. At the same time, a young woman's body is found at an excavation site in Ystad. It turns out to be the remains of a prostitute from Moldova.
The investigation leads to a Russian trafficker who calls himself a fashion photographer who seems to have been cruelly exploting young women. Wallander wants to know more about the girl, so goes to Moldava where he meets her desperate father and twin sister. They tell a different story about Tatiana: that she was happy and sent home large sums of money.
Back in Sweden, Kurt has a car accident, leading Mattson to sign him off sick so he'll stay out of the investigation. But Kurt continues to secretly investigate the case, and to face the question of whether it is always right to tell the truth. Meanwhile, Kurt receives a reply from the doctor about his memory problems. He opens the envelope and stares silently at the doctor's words.
Kurt has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He doesn't accept the diagnosis, and wants to keep it as secret as possible - but it's becoming increasingly difficult to hide.
An arsonist in Skåne has served his sentence and has been released into the wild. But he isn't welcome in his small community, and the kiosk owner won't even sell him cigarettes. That same night the kiosk catches fire, burning the owner inside. The arsonist is again hunted for arson. Kurt is confused and can't keep things together. Martinsson accuses him of lying and finds him increasingly difficult to trust. Later the suspected arsonist is found badly beaten and unconscious.
Kurt decides to tell Linda that he is seriously ill and that he needs her help. But will she be there for him, when he's not always been there for her?
It's almost Christmas and Kurt's memory disease is becoming more serious. He realizes that it will soon be necessary to tell his colleagues and the rest of the world that he's sick, but finds the idea of giving up his job - his only identity - hard to face.
In Ystad, there is a brutal kidnapping of a famous restaurateur, Paolo Salino. Kurt takes on the case, but is forced to enlist the help of his colleague Jenny at Malmö police. But she does not live up to all that she pretends to be, and is slow in understanding what Kurt is looking for. When the tracks of the investigation lead straight into the police ranks, the resolution - Kurt's final event as a policeman - turns violent. One final battle that is about Kurt's struggle against his illness and towards justice in a corrupt police force. He is forced to ask himself one last time, why he chose to be a cop.
