For Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz, their new case begins with a terrible situation: an unknown man overpowers Charlotte Lindholm, puts a knife to her neck and talks confusedly about "voices in his head" and that someone is chasing him. When the situation escalates, Anaïs Schmitz has to make a split-second decision: kill the man or risk Charlotte's life. The further investigations lead the two commissioners to a second corpse and an apparently unsuccessful foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr in Mali..