In the bone collection at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, a young doctoral student discovers a skull that does not match the rest of the skeleton with which it was sorted. The skull is significantly younger than stated in the mortuary papers. That same morning, twenty-year-old Steffi wants to complain to her mother that she didn't wake her up. But Andrea Schwinn lies strangled in the dining room of the inn that the family has run for generations. The father, Holger Schwinn, cannot be found. One of his hunting weapons is missing. While chief inspector Felix Voss and his colleagues, chief inspector Paula Ringelhahn, inspectors Wanda Goldwasser, Sebastian Fleischer and the head of forensics, Michael Schatz, are investigating in the inn, an elderly woman pitches a small tent on Jakobsplatz directly in front of the Nuremberg police headquarters because she does not want to put up with the fact that the police refuse to take action in the case of her missing adult son. Professor Mittlich, the head of the Anatomical Institute, seeks advice from Police President Dr. Kaiser, whom she knows privately. Should she cover up the discovery of the unknown skull? Kaiser is strictly against it. His homicide squad will be investigating undercover at the institute. But is it actually a homicide? Is the husband the killer? Meanwhile, the innkeeper Schwinn becomes the focus of the investigation. Felix Voss suspects that he has holed up in the huge forest near the inn. At night he goes there and calls for him. He doesn't find the fleeting Schwinn, but in the dining room he immerses himself in the silent witnesses of a family tragedy that has been brewing for years. In this house everyone seems to have been 'too alone'. The investigations in the Anatomical Institute confront Voss, Ringelhahn and Goldwasser with the inevitability of death beyond homicide. Paula learns that the man's heart weighs heavier than the woman's, while Wanda falls in love with the graduate student who started it all rolling. What remains of us after death? How does the daily handling of corpses change employees? And what is a little girl in red rubber boots doing in this environment? The older woman, who has now been camping in front of the police headquarters for 48 hours, raises completely different questions. Chief of Police Kaiser wants to clear the tent, but Voss and Ringelhahn are against it. Is there a right to worry? Who doesn't long for the opposite of loneliness? The events in the Anatomical Institute ultimately demanded a high degree of power of deduction, intuition and interrogation skills from Voss, Ringelhahn and their team. Because the skull belongs to a human who was killed in an almost perfect way. But only almost perfect. Written by ADR Das Erste

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• Thriller

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