Double murder in a Salzburg hospital. The first victim, Olaf Schmidt, is – after a mysterious car accident – the seriously injured driver of an important German politician. The second victim, Albrecht Edlinger, is a patient in the same hospital room. The crashed mountaineer was apparently only unlucky enough to have seen the perpetrator. The professional and ice-cold execution of the crime directs the suspicion of a mysterious woman. You will be connected to a news service assumes and it has a strong motive. Bavarian Commissioner Hubert Mur sees the crime in connection with the corrupt politician and his involvement in arms exports. The driver should probably be switched off as an uncomfortable know-it-all. It is only thanks to Major Palfinger's sense of human abysses and his intensive search for the archaic roots of the deed that the very personal and emotional backgrounds are revealed.