Death of a marriage.

Murder rage.

State prosecutor Bernd Reuther accepts teaching a university course. Law student Clara Rheinsfeldt surprises him, offering a champagne bottle at his home and possibly herself, promising to bring something to his office, but is savagely stabbed to death in her room. Her parents ignored her double life as prostitute. Eternal student Timo Schwarz stalked her, obsessed but only over-protective, filming all her visitors. Thus the team identifies her colleague/pimp Alice Kromme, who is hot just before Bern can talk to her. Evidence points out a blackmailed lawyer-client, ...

Macedonian-born wine importer Besnik Ivanov is fatally stabbed five-fold at night in his cellar. Bernd Reuther's colleague Zenz wants the case, as an angle to the years-failing case against Ivanov for cocaine trade. Forensics point at soon jailed Kurdish Turkish cook Ozman Kaymaz, whose employer and distant kin Ari Çanar's restaurant is shot at by Ivanov's son Vasco, Ari's corpse is found shortly after. Rether's team find complex links between the families of both business and personal natures.