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.