A lawyer named Anna Hartogh attends a meeting with her wealthy client Simon, the head of a successful jeans company called BootCamp. During the visit, she impulsively pockets an expensive ring she finds lying on his desk. What Anna does not realize is that Simon has a hidden camera in his office, which captures the theft in clear detail. That same evening, she meets and falls for Max, a detective with the local police. The next day, Simon confronts Anna with the incriminating video and begins to blackmail her, demanding sex in exchange for his silence and to keep her career from being destroyed.

The story is set in the contemporary Netherlands, revolving around the intersecting worlds of high-stakes corporate fashion, the legal profession, and a tense police investigation. As Anna struggles under Simon's escalating sexual coercion, she confides in her friend and law partner, Roos. Desperate and fearing she will lose everything, Anna decides to fight back, swearing she will never submit to Simon again even if it means killing him. When she confronts him, a violent struggle ensues, and Anna stabs Simon with an awl. Immediately after this fight, news breaks that Simon has been murdered, throwing the city into a major police investigation.

The narrative follows multiple, interconnected arcs. The primary arc is Anna's desperate attempt to conceal her secret and evade suspicion as Max, her new boyfriend, is drawn into the official murder inquiry. Her relationship with Max becomes fraught with tension and lies as he gets closer to the truth about her connection to the dead man. A secondary arc follows Roos, whose conscience begins to weigh heavily as she advises Anna on how to avoid capture, forcing her to make an impossible decision about her partner's fate. Meanwhile, Simon’s grieving widow Lilly and his brother Patrick struggle to keep BootCamp from collapsing as the spring fashion show approaches, while also uncovering dark secrets about Simon’s past, including a mysterious ring with a troubling history.

As the police investigation intensifies, Anna attempts to find other women whom Simon victimized to prove a pattern of his abuse. However, the evidence against her mounts. Max eventually discovers the truth about the theft and blackmail, placing him in an unbearable moral dilemma as a police officer. Ultimately, Anna is arrested and jailed, becoming the prime suspect in Simon's murder. With Max frozen out of the official investigation and Lilly reeling from the horrifying facts about her late husband, Anna must team up with Max from behind bars to find the real killer. The story concludes with the pair fighting to clear her name and expose the truth as Patrick pushes forward with the fashion show, determined that it will be a success no matter the cost.