Scandal in Grafenau! Nighttime strollers discover a male corpse on a park bench along the lakeside promenade. Word spreads quickly: the deceased is a reclusive glassblower who had few friends in the town. Chief Inspector Franziska Hausmann, on a completely different mission, is puzzled. For with the death of the glassblower, a wave of relief sweeps through the small town in the Bavarian Forest.