On New Year’s Eve, Taras Birsa, senior crime investigator at the Ljubljana Police Directorate, is on his way home from skiing on Mount Vogel above Lake Bohinj. Driving though a snowstorm, he comes across a girl who has discovered the body of a young woman in the river. Who is the victim? Who is the murderer? Was the perpetrator some crazy loner or was the unidentified woman eliminated as part of a larger plot?