An exciting crime novel set in the Upper Palatinate with a highly relevant backdrop of tradition. A man collapses dead at the tap during the Annaberg Festival in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Agathe Viersen and Gerhard Leitner begin their investigation for their insurance company. Was it merely an accident, or was there possibly intent involved? Their research leads them to the mountain festivals in the district and deep into a dangerous web of a gruesome past and a harsh present.