The witch

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An idyllic farm outside Fjällbacka. A happy family. A sunny summer day. Nothing suggests that in a few hours everything will have been turned upside down. The news of the disappearance of four-year-old Nea strikes like a bolt of lightning in the local community and reawakens the nightmare.
Thirty years ago, from the same farm, a girl of the same age, Stella, had disappeared and was later found murdered. Two thirteen-year-old friends were convicted of her murder. One still lives in Fjällbacka, where she has managed to build a quiet life; the other, now a famous Hollywood star, has returned to the fishing village for the first time since the murder.
Are the two cases connected? Are the police investigations complicated by Erica's investigation into the "Stella" case? Could the root of evil be hidden even deeper in the past, in the 17th-century witch hunt?