The world of German folk music is in turmoil. During the rehearsals to the show "Hier spielt die Musik" one of the local stars Toni Derlinger of the musical duo "Toni & Tina" is found beaten to death behind the set. His wife and partner Tina is desperate, his manager Rollo behaves as if he'd lost a son. It's difficult to imagine a brutal murder within the last bastion of the idyllic world of German folk music. Was it a disappointed fan who felt rejected? Or was it about money? "Toni & Tina" are no longer as popular as they once were with the new, successful genre of pop folk music mercilessly moving in, epitomized the folk-rock'n'roller boyband "Herzensbrecher". The inspectors from Dresden Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland delve deeper into this strange world of perfect image cultivation. And as they do it becomes less and less clear who benefits most from the death of the former folk star Toni. Simultaneously their young colleague Maria Mohr, a police academy student, finds the crucial tip-off and puts herself in grave danger by following her gut...