In a rural idyll, a man who could not be more inconspicuous is murdered. His wife, Martina Käster, is in deep mourning for him and cannot explain who could have had a motive for the murder. Charlotte Lindholm investigates and finds out that the supposedly good husband apparently led a secret double life. At the edge of a forest, Charlotte discovers a dacha containing photos of a young woman and children's toys - an indication of a second family? Everything points to it. In the attempt to locate the woman and the child, the inspector encounters further inconsistencies. For Charlotte Lindholm, this murder becomes a case where nothing is as it seems.