Aberdeen. Scotland. On the land, a corpse is discovered by a hunter. Inspector Jo Mac Allister, called upon the scene of the crime, finds himself face-to-sky to the body of a woman lying naked on her back, legs united and arms open, eyes wide wide open and head turned swollen. Beautiful macabre comedy. The body is torn by lashes, burned, shaved, and marked to the red iron. The beginning of a series of abominable murders.Inspector Jo Mac Allister will lead the investigation into these killers and face a painful past that he was trying to forget in vain.