Dark thriller "The Woman in the cage", is a picture of the global best-seller by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish writer having to account all the most important Scandinavian literary prizes, including the prestigious Glass Key - a distinction which, in recent years gained the greatest masters of Scandinavian crime fiction - Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Script by Nikolaj Arcel film is nominated for a BAFTA screenwriter loud "Millennium: Men Who Hate Women".
The mysterious circumstances, from the deck of the ferry, it disappears pretty parliamentarian - Merete Lynggaard (Sonja Richter - TV series "The Killing"). Extensive investigation does not produce results. Five years later, the Danish Parliament shall decide on the establishment of the Department Q, a special unit investigating unsolved crimes. At its head is a detective Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas - "Angels and Demons"). His brilliant career in homicide shattered events, which resulted in the deaths of two police officers. Morck, supported by a new partner Assad (Fares Fares, known for his Oscar-winning "Enemy Number One"), throws herself into her work. Led hunch, x-rays Lynggaard case and discovers that the disappearance of a woman was not accidental. The results of the investigation will surprise everyone ...