The actress Carolin Seitz and her husband Moritz were once considered a dazzling and successful couple in the film industry. But those times are long gone. Moritz has been in prison for four years because he is said to have killed the theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Moritz is considered a murderer and Carolin the wife of a murderer.
Now, many years later, there is a turning point:Actor Ole Stark turns himself in to the police and claims to be the real killer. Since Moritz has already been convicted of the crime and is behind bars, the public prosecutor's office cannot initiate any new investigations. But she gives inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk a week to find out what's really going on in the story they're being told.