The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It soon becomes clear that they have more things in common than they initially thought. When they start becoming a family, Tord from the local authorities shows up and threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

The autistic daughter of Criminal Psychologist Inger Johanne Viks becomes the witness of a murder. Together with Superintendent Ingvar Nymann she launches on a hunt on what seems to be an ice cold killer with a mission.