A gripping Swedish thriller based on the first book in Stieg Larsson's worldwide bestselling Millennium trilogy. Happily, a sweeping and complex novel has made an equally fascinating and fast-moving page-turner of a movie. Disgraced investigative journalist Mikael is hired by a wealthy tycoon to investigate the forty-year old disappearance, and probable murder, of his young niece. At the same time Mikael is himself being pursued by investigative hacker Lisbeth, the wild child of the film's title and a woman full of contradictions who operates solely according to her own logic. Noomi Rapace's mesmerising performance turns her into a uncontrollable animal with her own sense of justice. Some classic noir twists and turns raise more unanswered questions until a whole Pandora's box of past fascist and religious atrocities is opened to reveal an even more shocking and disturbing crime.