In the life of the girl-hacker Lisbet Salander (Claire Foy) and journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Sverrir Gudnason) have changed, and now each of the characters busy with their own problems. Lisbeth declared war on the criminal Empire of his father, seeking to destroy even the smallest of its remains. Michael has a difficult period-critics and colleagues gave him bullying, reproaching the loss of professionalism, and his magazine "Millennium" threatens "hostile takeover" a major media concern. And yet the old friends are destined to meet again when Blomkvist gets involved in the investigation of the murder of the famous Swedish Professor bolder, a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence. Salander also finds out that behind this crime there can be it the most evil enemies ‒ ruthless cyber criminals calling themselves the Spiders, which very soon begins to terrorize the whole of Stockholm, as well as the team of the magazine "Millennium" and the Blomkvist and Salander.

"The girl who got stuck in the web" is a detective Thriller based on the novel of the same name by the Swedish journalist and writer David Lagerkranz, who continues the trilogy "Millennium" by Stig Larsson. The Director of the movie was made by Fede Alvarez ("don't breathe", "the evil dead. Black book"), he same worked over scenario together with Steven knight ("Locke", "Seventh son") and Jay Bass ("Song song").