In the exclusive Hotel Rheinpalais, a woman is found hanged in her room. On the surface everything points to suicide. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk have doubts: For them it looks like a brutal execution. First testimonies indicate a connection between the 60-year-old victim Kathrin Kampe and the owner of the hotel Bettina Mai. When the suspicions against Bettina Mai intensify and her arrest is imminent, she brings Inspector Schenk into her power and flees with him as a hostage .
—ARD Das Erste