The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. The gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady dead in her Usedom holiday home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead man's husband, also well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the scene of the crime. The two are linked by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is doing badly. The inspector pours out her heart to her friend. Nobody in the police station suspects that Ellen was meeting Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the safe end of her career in the police and the probable career end for her lover, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed. The group of suspects also includes the employees of the gardening company, who were staying at the couple's holiday home before Berger's death, as well as the Greifswald art dealer Schwenkers, who was also seen there. Ellen asks Karin to find out for her what role Schwenkers might have played. She doesn't want to take on the questioning herself because she fears Schwenkers might recognize her.
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