World champion, World Cup winner, fashion designer… Biathlete Laura Prell was something of a local hero in Berchtesgaden. She had just been discussing her biography with Johanna Beissl when her body was found in the woods. She had been murdered. Even the medical examiner, Dr. Hartmann, had tears in his eyes because he had so admired Laura. And Sophia blamed herself for having let the weeping Laura reject her just the evening before. Why was Laura Prell so distraught before her death?

Beissl is faced with the fact that his youngest daughter, Eva, wants to study marine biology in Kiel. On top of that, he's deeply troubled by the murder of veterinarian Dr. Leitner, who was found bludgeoned to death in his brother Jakob's bird of prey aviary. A Saudi businessman had planned to invest a large sum of money there… While Beissl is relieved that Eva's gap year is drawing to a close, he and Elli are deeply saddened by the prospect of their youngest daughter moving out. Eva wants to follow her boyfriend to Kiel and study marine biology. But Beissl doesn't have much time to dwell on it.