Emotionally-scarred but technologically-brilliant computer hacker Lisbeth Salander decides to help Mikael Blomkvist, the inquisitive journalist of the radical magazine Millennium, shed light on the unaccountable disappearance of Harriet Vanger who's been missing for 40 long years. As Mikael and Lisbeth go through piles of archives, newspapers, and photos with suspects to unearth the dark, ugly secrets of the cryptic Vangers, a well-planned conspiracy dating back to the 1970s begins to unravel, and no one is safe. More and more, as incriminating circumstantial evidence points to Lisbeth, the suffocating stranglehold of the police tightens, and Mikael must summon up every last ounce of courage to unearth a monumental government cover-up and the sinister machinations of corrupt jackals all hell-bent on silencing Lisbeth for good. What will it take to clear the name of Lisbeth Salander, the girl who kicked the hornets' nest?