This time, the Graz detective Sandra Mohr and her supervisor Sascha Bergmann have to go to the remote Mürztal to solve a bizarre death with the jovial local police officer Ferdinand Franz: The entrepreneur Walter Fürst is dead in his own bed – with strangulation marks on his neck.
An unhappily in-love car mechanic living in a small village finds himself at a crossroads; the apparent senselessness of life saddens him, and his only friend, the local butcher, is not much help.