A homeless woman has been raped and assaulted. Her body is found on a bench in the village of Bassow near Rostock, right next to where two recently released sex offenders live. The villagers are already disdainful of Kukulies and Buschke, and everything seems to point right to them as the perpetrators. But Katrin König, the profiler from the state bureau of investigation isn’t convinced. However, since her upcoming transfer to Berlin has become public knowledge, she is in a difficult position with her colleagues – especially Bukow, who is tortured by the fact that his father is in a coma. Then Buschke hangs himself and Kukulies disappears without a trace. In the course of their investigations, Bukow and König turn up more and more inconsistencies in the statements made by the villagers, who are concealing a dark secret.