A reunion of the unpleasant kind: Chief Inspector Kain recognizes his former school friend Eddie in the dead homeless man on the riverbank. Even as a teenager, he was not a sports enthusiast and would never have stepped into the water voluntarily. While Chief Inspector Ehrlicher cannot completely rule out suicide out of desperation, for Kain it is clearly murder. Suspicion falls on Sergeant Frank Lohner, in whose precinct Ehrlicher and Kain are investigating. A district of Leipzig that differs from the surrounding area in terms of cleanliness and order. Apparently, the rule here is not just one with a steady hand. Beneath the neat surface simmers a dark secret that no one wants to talk about.