Lotte Jäger (Silke Bodenbender), special investigator in the Potsdam homicide squad for unsolved old cases, investigates a murder case in a Brandenburg village that has been unsolved for 16 years. In the summer of 2001, Manuela Kirschner (Nellie Thalbach) falls victim to a brutal violent crime after the soccer club SV Grün Weiß Großlühne’s promotion party. The chief inspector in charge, Konrad Dahlke (Hansjürgen Hürrig), suspects a sex murder, but is unable to solve the case. Traces have been covered, potential perpetrators have no memory. The party was too long, the celebrations too intense. Suspicion grows in the village – the murderer is among them, that much is certain. The files were never closed.
Now, sixteen years later, the now retired Dahlke is sent a video of the party – sender unknown – and he asks his former colleague Kurt Schaake (Sebastian Hülk) and Lotte Jäger to reopen the case. The investigation leads the detective into a swamp of mistrust, resentment and repression. Nobody in the village wants to conjure up the demons of the past again and the wall of silence seems insurmountable. Lotte Jäger no longer knows who she can trust and what she can believe and – increasingly plagued by anxiety and panic – soon begins to doubt herself. But together with Kurt Schaake, Lotte Jäger continues to investigate and search undeterred.
Inspired by true events – characters and actions are fictitious.