Two children in a field are seen staring in the distance. They are awaiting something, or someone, it is not clear. The girl and the boy are in fact expecting their parents, who are supposed to being smuggled into Sweden from Iraq. Little prepare them for the horrible discovery Linda Wallander makes when she goes to inspect a truck that has been left unattended in an open field. Inside the truck nine bodies are found dead. The only survival is a young baby girl that is taken to the local hospital for observation.
Wallander and his team begin to reconstruct the incident. It is clear the bodies were being smuggled into the country, the same way a lot of illegal aliens are trying to gain entry to first world countries. What puzzles Kurt and his associates is who is behind the operation. The criminals that brought the undocumented people are criminals; their minds are into profits made from the illicit trade.
The Ystad police get lucky in tracing the parents of the baby they found. The nearby convent reveals a secret: the nuns have been helping the newly arrivals. In fact the girl and the boy we see at the beginning are connected to the surviving baby girl from the truck. Wallander and his team make a connection that involves an operation that relies somebody that has access to the entry point where the smugglers are bringing refugees to distract from the drugs that they are bringing into Sweden.
A great episode in the series based on Henning Mankell's stories. This chapter was directed by Anders Engstrom, who directed other installments of 'Wallander'. The screenplay was written by Cecilia and Rolf Borjlind. Their adaptation of Mr. Mankell's material gives the audience a good thriller that offers the viewers a lot of surprises. This installment brings awareness of an issue in which innocent people are the pawns of criminals that profit from the unsuspecting desperate souls trying to find refuge in places where they are not persecuted and can make something out of their lives in secure environments.
Krister Henriksson and Johanna Sallstrom shine as Kurt and Linda Wallander, the father and daughter detectives. In the episode we watch as Linda becomes aware of her father's sexuality when he gets interested in a lady connected with the police that Kurt likes and has a brief affair with.
Wallander and his team begin to reconstruct the incident. It is clear the bodies were being smuggled into the country, the same way a lot of illegal aliens are trying to gain entry to first world countries. What puzzles Kurt and his associates is who is behind the operation. The criminals that brought the undocumented people are criminals; their minds are into profits made from the illicit trade.
The Ystad police get lucky in tracing the parents of the baby they found. The nearby convent reveals a secret: the nuns have been helping the newly arrivals. In fact the girl and the boy we see at the beginning are connected to the surviving baby girl from the truck. Wallander and his team make a connection that involves an operation that relies somebody that has access to the entry point where the smugglers are bringing refugees to distract from the drugs that they are bringing into Sweden.
A great episode in the series based on Henning Mankell's stories. This chapter was directed by Anders Engstrom, who directed other installments of 'Wallander'. The screenplay was written by Cecilia and Rolf Borjlind. Their adaptation of Mr. Mankell's material gives the audience a good thriller that offers the viewers a lot of surprises. This installment brings awareness of an issue in which innocent people are the pawns of criminals that profit from the unsuspecting desperate souls trying to find refuge in places where they are not persecuted and can make something out of their lives in secure environments.
Krister Henriksson and Johanna Sallstrom shine as Kurt and Linda Wallander, the father and daughter detectives. In the episode we watch as Linda becomes aware of her father's sexuality when he gets interested in a lady connected with the police that Kurt likes and has a brief affair with.
