A sniper shooting at pedestrians and motorists from an ambush keeps Bremen in suspense. The inspectors Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her partner Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) try under high pressure to track down the perpetrator. Inga Lürsen knows that he can go on killing undetected for a long time if something doesn't happen soon. So she uses the media to deliberately provoke him. But that literally gets her in his crosshairs and she suddenly has to fight for her life. When the inspector and her colleague finally understand who the perpetrator is and what drives him, it's almost too late...