The sister of his first great love commits suicide. Gravedigger Max Broll must bury her, but that's not all: Marga's body is stolen from the still fresh grave. Why? And above all: by whom? Against the wishes of the police, Broll, together with his best friend Johann Baroni, a retired football star, takes matters into his own hands. For the two of them, it becomes a race for life and death.