The movie, The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, is set in various places throughout Sweden. Mikael Blomkvist is investigating the death of a young woman which has gone unsolved for the last forty years. He is being assisted in solving the mystery by Lisbeth Salander. The movie's story reflects the many different ranges of crime and the way that the person committing the crime goes through the various stages as they are committing them. We are also able to look at the feminist theory. Even Lis who was motivated to commit a crime out of revenge thought things through, but in the end she did not care if she was caught in the act. The movie opens in Stockholm, Sweden where journalist Mikael Blomkvist has been sued by businessman Hans-Erik Wennerström in a libel case regarding some accusations he published about Wennerstrom . At the same time Lisbeth Salander, a talented investigator and hacker, is completing a background check on Blomkvist for Henrik Vanger. Henrik Vanger hires Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance and assumed murder of Henrik's grandniece, Harriet, which occurred 40 years prior. In payment for his investigative work and information, Henrik Vanger says he will provide Blomkvist with information about Wennerström that could aid in Blomkvist's win in the court case against him. Lisbeth Salander is under state legal guardianship due to diagnosed mental incompetency. She is being put under a new guardian, lawyer Nils Bjurman. Bjurman abuses his authority over Salander and demands sexual favors, and he eventually goes so far as to violently rape her. Salander records the whole thing to be uses it as part of her revenge against him. She later turns the tables and rapes Bjurman and labels him as a rapist by tattooing him on his chest. With this blackmail over him she demands that he gives her control of her money. A break in the investigation comes when Blomkvist's daughter is visiting him sh