Michael Kleinewetter is back. And this time he has an entire village behind him. For one autumn and one spring, the serial killer Michael Kleinewetter had his fun with his favorite detective Schneider in the Oberberg region. The killer escaped, and things around Gummersbach became quiet again. But the next winter is surely coming, and Michael Kleinewetter is far from finished with his murderous journey. It leads him, under a new identity, back to Kottdorf, where it all began. But this time, Kleinewetter is not just focused on killing: he manipulates, seduces, and threatens until the entire village joins him and cuts itself off from the outside world. When there are only those inside and those outside, when the first outsiders disappear and terrible murders occur, Chief Detective Schneider begins to suspect who he is dealing with.