‘It has been said of our village that there are perverts and paedophiles lurking behind every bush. Whatever the truth of that claim, you would have to admit that we turned out rather well.’
Jolly and Peggy were toddlers when their parents died in a car crash. They were brought by a distant relative to a remote village in southern Sweden and given to strangers to raise. Unfortunately the strangers in question turned out to be alcoholic reprobates, and the village in question turned out to be a hotspot for creeps, sadists and psychos.
Growing up in this regrettable predicament, the sisters spend their time lurking around the mobile library, chatting up the parish priest, and befriending the local oddballs - much to the frustration of their foster mother, Jenni. Jenni is far from a model foster parent but she is determined to protect her girls from the parade of sinister weirdos they are inexplicably drawn toward. Until one day a grisly double-murder is discovered in the town, the culprit unidentified and still at large – and Jenni decides to take matters into her own hands...