The young policeman and mountaineer Thomas Hafner (Max Riemelt) is called to the site where a corpse was found. When he wants to recover the body, he realizes that the man is still alive. And worse still, he knows him. But the rescue fails, the injured falls into the depths and takes the experienced Hafner to his death. Together with his service group leader Walter Aschauer (Herbert Knaup) and Hanna Weiß (Katja Flint) of the Munich criminal police, Thomas begins to investigate. But when the identity of the dead man has been clarified, he himself is suspected of murder. Did he drop the victim to avenge an act long ago that brought shame on his whole family? At that time, the villagers had given his house an unmistakable „disgrace“. Is the past catching up with him now?