A car is parked in a forest near Magdeburg. There is a noticeable amount of blood in the trunk. The chief inspectors Doreen Brasch and Dirk Köhler are looking for the owner Jurij Rehberg. In the nearby village, Annette Wolf doesn't know where her partner is. He has been missing for a few days, which is not unusual for him as a freedom-loving person and does not worry her as a pregnant fiancée. Her father, on the other hand, Werner Wolf, immediately suspects that Jurij is involved in criminal activities. He would prefer it if his son-in-law-to-be didn't show up anymore. The DNA comparison brings a surprise: the blood comes from Yuri and judging by the amount he is dead. There is no trace of the corpse. The chief inspectors Brasch and Köhler question the villagers and get a mixed picture of the dead man: bon vivant, good-for-nothing, charmer, seducer, debtor. Many in the village didn't like him, while others really fell for him, including the local women, but also the baker Dietmar Böhmer. He found a good friend in Yuri. Gradually, motives for a murder unravel. But without a corpse, nothing can be proven to anyone. When the chief inspectors go through the town with sniffer dogs and post them in various places, a puzzle of perpetrators, accomplices, helpers and traitors is put together. Only the corpse remains as if swallowed up by the earth.
—ARD Das Erste