The Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm race, watched by millions of TV viewers, turns into a fiasco for successful Austrian ski racer Günther Bergmann. In the downhill race, he only manages to make it into one of the last places and accuses his assistant Claudius Raichel of having prepared his skis improperly. When he decides to retest the skis on the training slope, he encounters a sophisticated trap at top speed and does not survive the major spill. It soon becomes clear to Karin and Andreas that the plot must be related to the complicated relationships within the Bergmann and Raichel families.
