Kogda tvoi kollegi mertvy, a v prestuplenii podozrevayut davnyuyu znakomuyu, ostayetsya lish nachat sobstvennoye rassledovaniye. Mikael Blumkvist uveren, chto sumeyet raskryt taynu smerti zhurnalistov, kotoryye pytalis rassekretit kanaly seks-trafika iz stran Vostochnoy Yevropy. No v dele okazalis zameshany predstaviteli vlastnykh struktur, a uliki zagadochnym obrazom priveli k Lisbet Salander. Khotya na ubiytsu-psikhopatku ob"yavlena okhota, devushka gotova litsom k litsu vstretitsya ne tolko s mafiyey, no i s ognem, kotoryy predpochitayet zalivat... benzinom.