A few weeks after the arrest of the murderer of a young forced prostitute, the perpetrator himself became a victim of manslaughter in the Langenhagen prison. Charlotte Lindholm shows great interest in the background to the crime, because she believes that this will allow her to resume her old case, which ended unsatisfactorily for her. At that time, some gentlemen of high society were having fun with young girls who were badly abused and then simply thrown away. Although Charlotte managed to get hold of middlemen, the real perpetrators remained hidden. Together with the investigating police officer Prinz, she is now following a clue from the dead man, which takes her to the location of the party at the time. The castle is owned by the Hanover real estate tycoon Kaiser).
In his orbitTo her great surprise, she finds someone else: her boyfriend Jan Liebermann. His journalistic research into a real estate scandal and Charlotte's investigation seem to have the same subject: on the day the girl was murdered, a party was held in the castle to change the republic's old-age security system. An accident? For a moment, Charlotte and Jan open the door to the engine room of power in their city a crack. But the evidence is tenuous. In order to get to the celebrity backers, Charlotte Lindholm personally has to venture far to solve the case. A trip to Belarus turns into an inner journey into her personal fears. What she brings with her is the truth about Hanover and about herself.