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A suicide of a sixty-year-old woman on her birthday leads to the reopening of a case from 1988, a case that actually introduced Marcus Jacobsen to Carl Mørck. At that time, more than thirty years ago, a powerful explosion in an auto repair shop killed five mechanics and one child – the son of the woman who committed suicide. Now it is up to Department Q to roll up their sleeves in an attempt to establish the causes of the old tragedy. However, at the time, investigators had missed one strange detail that turns out to be key – near the repair shop was found a nine-centimeter pile of kitchen salt. Flipping through old files of suspicious deaths, the investigators from Department Q find that for more than three decades an unknown killer has been killing people, disguising his crimes as accidents or suicides, and the pile of salt is his signature. The dates of his violent deeds are inspired by the birthdays of the bloodiest dictators in human history. Successfully deciphering the killer's logic, Carl, Rose, and Ass Chase conclude that only a few days remain until the next killing. There is no time to waste. The upcoming wave of COVID threatens to derail the frantic investigation of the Special Department. To top it off, the clouds over Carl's head thicken after the police unexpectedly serve him a search warrant for his house...