The journalist Siggi Baumeister (Uwe Bohm) reluctantly returns to the wintery Eifel to sell his parents‘ house and close it off with his father (Herbert Meurer), who was brought to the home by a heart attack. But hardly arrived in the small Eifel village, Baumeister witnesses a cruel incident: the young fixer Ole (Maximilian von Pufendorf) burns in a barn, which he lived in with his great love Betty (Isabell Gerschke). Soon it turns out Ole was murdered. Betty has disappeared and Ole’s little brother Schappi (Max Riemelt) is desperate when Baumeister does not give him the help he is looking for. Only with great difficulty does Schappi succeed in softening the journalist’s heart. Together with the retired police officer Rodenstock (Hans Korte) and the opaque local police chief Kremers (Juergen Tonkel), Baumeister sets out in search of the background to the murder case.