Cigarette smuggling, combined with Sweden's high tax on tobacco, is enabling a lone criminal visionary, Radovan ‘Jakov’ Jakovic, to completely redraw the boundaries of Sweden's underworld. Against him, Jakov has a police officer, Gunn Thörngren, who sees what no one else sees, that the proceeds of cigarette smuggling will build a proper mafia in Sweden. She is fighting not only a growing criminal organisation but also her own police organisation, which does not see what she sees and is not equipped to face the new threat. Gunn is met with a total lack of understanding as to why cigarettes should be taken more seriously than armed bank robberies. As the story begins, both Gunn and Jakov are underdogs, forced to play a daring game to circumvent their superiors. It's not long before they develop a connection with each other. Each is convinced they are using the other for their own benefit, but their connection will have devastating consequences for both of them