LOGLINE

When a Swiss forensic anthropologist and a grieving detective investigate a series of bizarrely staged murders, they come across the forgotten story of a girl who died a brutal death in 1987 – a crime that was covered up and whose shadow now weighs as a curse on the town and its inhabitants.

SYNOPSIS

The remote Swiss border town of Sühnen is more than just secretive – it is steeped in the echoes of decades of repressed guilt. When the horribly mutilated body of a man is discovered in the adjacent forest, Fedpol dispatches forensic anthropologist Dr. Elizabeth Adler – a highly sensitive investigator haunted by a traumatic past and endowed with an uncanny gift: she can see the last moments of the dead.
Alongside the taciturn detective Aiden Locke, Elizabeth encounters a web of abuse, silence and institutional corruption: officials who look the other way; a priest who shapes children into fanatical believers; a mayor who poisons the town's water in order to build a real estate empire on sacred ground. Each murder turns out to be more than a crime – it is a ritual reckoning.
The deeper Elizabeth delves into the investigation, the more reality and vision become blurred. Her own story breaks open: the suicide of her father, the violent loss of her mother, the repressed shadows of her childhood. 
The killer leaves messages – hidden in the bodies – and they are clearly addressed to her.
When innocent Beau Collins is wrongly convicted by the city, the clues lead to Jenny Hawthorne – a girl who died in 1983 after being raped while giving birth to her child. Someone writes a poem of revenge. Each victim is linked to Jenny's suffering. Elizabeth realizes that the fate of the killer is inextricably linked to her own.
And the next message forces her to dig deeper – into a past she wanted to forget at all costs.