Fourteen-year-old Nele Johannson from Marne lies dead on the Elbe beach. A critical case for Chief Inspector Lyn Harms of the Itzehoe Criminal Police in Schleswig-Holstein, as the girl had been missing for over eleven years, having been abducted at the age of two during the Marner Rose Monday parade. The frantic search for the perpetrator, which leads Lyn Harms and her colleagues to rural slaughterhouses and lonely marsh farms, becomes a race against time, as there is still the girl Anna.