<p>A series of gruesome murders of young women begins in the small Westphalian town of Altena. The bodies are left with brutal precision in bushes and forests - without sexual violence, but with the cruel symbol of strangulation. The 59-year-old chief detective Rainer Lennert, who after years of patrol duty has taken refuge in the quiet office work, is suddenly entangled in a nightmare that takes him to the limits of his existence. When he realiz...