Under extremely mysterious circumstances, 23-year-old Anna Kaber (Alma Hasun) is found murdered in the shell of a family home, lying on the ground – her long, blond hair is spread out like a wreath, she is wearing a necklace with two clasped hands as a pendant, at the scene of the crime there is a camera tripod and the handle on the inside of the door is missing. In addition, security guards appear to have lived in another room. Was the student held captive here? The eye-catching pendant leads special investigator Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) to the organization "Epitarsis", whose logo is this hand symbol and whose members included Anna.
But "Epitarsis" boss Katharina Leupold (Victoria Trauttmansdorff) is ready to use extreme means to avert damage from her globally active, powerful "religious community". And she has an influential confidante at the DA's office. In her hands is a confidential dossier about Moritz Eisner. Although she willingly explains to him that she will help solve the murder case, he quickly realizes that everything is a set-up and that those questioned are lying to the heavens. When Eisner's daughter Claudia (Sarah Tkotsch) tells her father that she wants to leave home and move in with a student flat share, he has no idea that this is a cleverly prepared trap to thwart his investigations.
In good faith and unsuspectingly, Sarah accepted the tempting and deliberately covert offer from a female "Epitarsis" member. When Eisner shows up for a house search of the "faith community," which he and others consider a cult, he is abruptly stopped. Because photos of Claudia's visit to "Epitarsis" were passed to the chief of police. So everything looks like a police officer's private vendetta. Eisner is pissed off and angry at the same time at how cleverly someone spun the threads in the background and tricked him. Moritz Eisner learns from Maria Levin (Michou Friesz) from the "Working Group on Sects and Cults" that Anna's father had brought his daughter to this house himself in order to persuade her to turn away from "Epitarsis" through conversations in front of the camera.
And apparently there is a reference to the perpetrator on one of the videos that Maria Levin wants to send to the police. But the killer or killers are faster - she is also strangled. A photo finally puts Moritz Eisner on a very hot lead to "Epitarsis". With a coup that is as clever as it is surprising, this organization tries to pull its head out of the noose at the very last minute...