Inspector Stascha Novak is shocked when she discovers a familiar necklace on a cremated corpse. The head of the Split homicide squad believes her ex-fiancé Milan was the victim of a camouflaged murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that the dead person is someone else: Gore Memic from a notorious mafia clan in the capital Zagreb. Milan is now suspected of having faked his death in order to go into hiding. How close she is to the fleeting nightclub owner, Stascha conceals from her superior Kovacic as well as a violent argument with Memic the night before in Milan's...

Stascha Novak takes on a murder case in which she doesn't have to search long for a coherent motive. The victim, the abusive restaurant manager Ivan Kalinic, not only treated the Romanian waitress Adina badly, but also tried to rape her. The main suspect disappeared the morning after the bloody act. Her friend Danijel Vida and his buddy Tin, seasonal workers in Kalinic's team, also left headlong to their Dalmatian hometown Privonice. Stascha drives there with her colleague Emil to interrogate the two of them and trace the trace of Adina who has gone into hiding. ...