Completely frightened, a young woman shows up at Inga Lürsen's (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund's (Oliver Mommsen) police station. After a long night, shortly before a perpetrator (Bernd Tauber) finally wants to confess, she bursts into the middle of the interrogation. The perpetrator is silent again. Chief Inspector Inga Lürsen is annoyed and tired. Manu tells of a brutal murder of her boyfriend, but Inga Lürsen doesn't believe her. For them, Manu (Ester Zimmering) is a storyteller like Scheherazade. Years ago she convicted Manu with a confession for manslaughter in a drug environment, and even then Manu often told stories and only rarely the truth. But Manu does not give up, she insists that her boyfriend was involved in the 9/11 terror.
Only Stedefreund - fascinated by this woman - is willing to accept her claims. He persuades Inga Lürsen to drive with Manu to the apartment where the body is supposed to be; but the detectives find nothing - no body, no traces, no clues to Manu's story. But Stedefreund wants to believe the storyteller. Only for Inga does the case seem very clear, until her old love suddenly shows up, and then she too has to decide on the truth.