In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
The times of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vidocq is a brutal, criminal who steals and robs in the streets of Paris. It is not stopped by the thick walls of the most strictly guarded prisons. He escapes. After a successful escape from the dungeon Vidoc, hiding his identity, but the accomplices got wind of it. Vidocq cooperates with the police and, in exchange for freedom, helps her clear the streets of all sorts of thieves, and creates an entire empire of the fight against crime.