In a small sleepy village in Sweden, pure idyll reigns. Mauritz dreams of the big wide world and the pretty neighbor girl Signhild. He secretly watches her and realizes too late that a dark figure is lurking around her house. But then something happens that shakes the community to its core: the watchmaker Kekkonen, a grumpy, taciturn man, is found brutally murdered in his marital bedroom. Who was the perpetrator? Could it be someone from the village?.