This is the first thrilling adaptation of the best selling department q crime novels by jussi alder olsen.carl is a disgraced detective who is re assigned to the newly created department q ,as basement bound job filing cold cases and assigned a new assistant,assad,a smart young muslim cop.although they receive specific orders to only read and sort through the cases,carl's stubborn nature throws them headlong into the mystery of a missing politician's disappearance 5 years earlier.believing the case to be unsolved,they embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them into the dark underworld of copenhagen.