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Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital, Oslo. On a chilling morning, a patient's body is found dead after being strangled in his cell, his lips frozen as if in a last attempt to scream. Experienced Inspector Sarah Gehringen takes on the investigation, but she realises immediately that this case is like no other...

Hundreds of questions confront her as she attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the probable suicide: why does the victim have a mark with the number 488 on her forehead? What do the mysterious drawings on the wall of his room mean? Why do hospital staff refuse to reveal the true identity of the deceased, housed in a „Gaustad.“ more than thirty years ago?

A scream pierces the settled silence, and long dormant forces awaken. Sarah will soon learn the inexorable truth about one of the eternal questions - is there life after death...