Elisabeth Herrmann

After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death.

An old lady shoots in front of the district court on the homeless Hellmer, who can escape unhurt. Ms. Altenburg comes from Görlitz and was visiting Berlin with her church group. After the crime, Ms. Altenburg suffered a fainting spell and is in hospital. Lawyer Joachim Vernau offers his help to the woman - he travels to Görlitz to get her personal belongings. When he returns, Margarete has died in the clinic. Vernau does not let go of this case: The old lady can not have planned the murder attempt on Hellmer alone. Who got her the weapon? And what is the motive?

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?

Lawyer Joachim Vernau has arrived at the top of Berlin society. Soon he marries into the influential family of Zernikows. But the visit of an old woman changes everything. A former nanny claims compensation in a Russian form from Zernikows' for the time she worked with them. Shortly thereafter, the bearer of the letter - the old woman found dead ...