When the entire body of a foreign pupil is discovered in the roads of this down-at-heel town of Bes?el, it's only another day's work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of this Extreme Crime Squad. However he uncovers proof that the murdered woman came from Ul Qoma, a town that conveys a harmful and explosive connection with Bes?el, also this instance will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.