Branded is a suspenseful thriller about a murder whose trail leads from cold Denmark to Uganda, Africa
For seventeen-year-old Rebekka, the fateful moment is the journey with her mother to the hospital. The stressed driver is in a hurry because Rebekka is about to give birth, and when the car in front of them brakes hard, it hits him from behind at full speed. Rebecca loses everything that morning: for his mother and his unborn child. She herself survived only by a miracle.
After seventeen years, Rebekka is slowly leaving the past behind. She has recovered from a car accident in Africa, where her father served as ambassador. She returned to Denmark, studied law and now works as a real estate agent focusing on luxury properties in the countryside. Finally, her life seems to be taking shape again. Until fate strikes again. This time it's cancer. Aggressive, life-threatening type. Rebecca's only chance of survival is a bone marrow transplant from a close relative. Since she has no siblings, her only hope is her father. However, tests show that the father's cells cannot be used. All seems lost when a new reality emerges - the truth about her child that her father has been hiding from her all along...
Rebekka learns that her daughter did not die in childbirth. She was adopted and is probably still alive. Meanwhile, somewhere in Copenhagen's immigrant ghettos, Detective Kim investigates a brutal murder in which one of the murdered woman's legs was carefully cut off and apparently taken by the killer. Indications suggest that this is a much bigger case, reaching far beyond the country's borders, into the heart of the darkness in the jungles of African Uganda. Branded is a gripping thriller about injustice, family ties and the courage to take fate into your own hands.
