A mysterious pattern is cut into the face of the brutally murdered Julie with a knife. However, the gruesome death attracts the attention of the eccentric, sometimes smiling detective couple, Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, for another reason. All signs point to her death being written in advance in an unpublished novel that is still in the works. But what is the secret that connects the lives of Julie and Esther, a retired literature professor and amateur crime writer? If detective Jeppe Korner and his partner, Anette Werner, manage to track down the mystery, perhaps the seemingly incomprehensibly complicated and senseless history of the crimes will make sense.