Chief Inspector von Meuffels is to interrogate a particularly insidious murderer in prison. What von Meuffels doesn't expect: in the prison of all places, he meets the young head of department Karen Wagner, whom he can't get out of his head from now on. And since von Meuffels knows everything about murder and manslaughter, but is rather reserved when it comes to emotional matters, what follows could be described as a romance between two shy and rather lonely people. If there wasn't a strange series of suicides and von Meuffels slowly got the uncomfortable feeling that his new girlfriend knew a lot more about it than he would like. Against his own will, he begins to find out more about the woman. And were it not for an old school friend who means well and a fellow police officer with a violence problem, who knows if things would have turned out as horribly as they do in the end.
—ARD Das Erste