Harry Ritter has spent 15 years behind bars for murder while raiding a jeweler’s store in Berlin. Now he returns back home to the Spreewald – to safeguard the hidden loot and make things up with his estranged son Matthias.
But Matthias has quite different concerns: together with Inspector Krüger he is investigating his first murder case as public prosecutor. The day after Harry’s release the body of a private detective was found shot dead on the banks of the Spreewald Canal. The dead man is an old acquaintance: Eber, a former accomplice of Harry’s. Then Schlange, the third member of the pack, also turns up demanding his share of the stolen jewels.
