One early summer morning, Steffi Schwinn, daughter of landlords, finds her mother lying strangled in the inn. In the bone collection of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Würzburg, a doctoral student comes across a stranger's skull. And in front of the Nuremberg police headquarters, a woman pitches a tent to protest the police's refusal to search for her missing adult son. Three cases that deal with the longing for the opposite of loneliness and the right to care. At the heart of an almost perfect crime.