When Chief Inspector Robert Karow comes home, there is a hearse in front of his house. Karow's neighbor is dead. The inspector lived next to a corpse for weeks and didn't notice anything. Karow is devastated, while the landlady, Petra Olschewski, is in a conspicuous hurry to have the place cleaned. Although he has never had contact with the man, Karow spontaneously enters the neighboring apartment and declares it the crime scene. When coroner Jamila Marques discovers a shot in the neck of the already mummified corpse, Nina Rubin thinks about Karow's thesis "eviction by murder" and sets her sights on the landlady. Karow, on the other hand, follows a trail to clans that send young people like Ana and Magda to burglary with old people in Berlin. Karow comes into contact with Gerd Böhnke, the former judge. D. was the victim of such a burglary. Did Karow's dead neighbor suffer a similar fate? The more the inspectors found out about Gerd Böhnke, the more they saw the bearer of the Order of Honored Lawyer of the GDR in a new light.
—ARD Das Erste