故事发生在20世纪70年代的一座美国小镇秋千镇中，苏珊（莫莉•帕克 Molly Parker 饰）和布鲁斯（杰克•达文波特 Jack Davenport 饰）刚刚从老家搬到这里。这个小镇看上去整洁而又高级，充斥着上流社会的味道。夫妻两人对他们未来在这里的生活充满了希冀。很快，苏珊和布鲁斯就和这里的老住户汤姆（格兰特•秀 Grant Show 饰）、崔娜（拉娜•帕瑞拉 Lana Parrilla 饰）结成了好友，他们和苏珊以前认识的那些夫妻不同，致力于通过“邻里监督组织”来建立一个理想和自由的社区。
苏珊的老朋友珍妮特（米利亚姆•肖尔 Miriam Shor 饰）和她的丈夫罗杰（乔什•霍普金斯 Josh Hopkins 饰）随后也搬了进来，和苏珊不同，对于这个社区里发生的一些事情，珍妮特感到无法忍受。
Shetland returns for a new thrilling six-part tale with Douglas Henshall reprising his role as DI Jimmy Perez alongside series favourites Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Mark Bonnar, Erin Armstrong, Anne Kidd and Lewis Howden. Series 6 centres on the doorstep murder of a prominent local figure, a case which strikes at the heart of the Shetland Isles and its people. As Perez and his team uncover a kaleidoscope of motives for the murder, their investigation soon takes a shockingly sinister turn.
Tosh suspects something is seriously wrong when her friend, Annie Bett, goes missing. Calder has no time to recover from a life-threatening ordeal of her own, as together they set out in search of Annie and her young son, Noah.
Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach. A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland’s remote rural communities.
