A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.
Acting
Henriksson's exhausted humanity in every slumped shoulder
Direction
Magnusson lets silence scream louder than dialogue
Director
Leif Magnusson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Swedish TV-film belongs to the Henriksson era of Wallander (2005-2013), known for leaning harder into the detective's personal decay than Branagh's UK version.
The custody battle subplot reflects Sweden's 1990s-2000s cultural anxieties about parental rights and state intervention in family crises.
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