When will we ever understand? In Freiburg, the grave of the racial researcher Eugen Fischer is desecrated. In Windhoek, the wife of the German ambassador is kidnapped - along with a black child she intends to adopt. And in Berlin, a police officer is murdered just as a delegation arrives to bring back twenty Herero skulls that were stolen during the German colonial period to Namibia. Are old scores being settled that have been outstanding for more than a hundred years? While former police officer Clemencia Garises searches for the kidnapped in Namibia, journalist Claus Tiedtke in Berlin suspects that an assassination is imminent...