High summer at the Flensburg Fjord: Farmer Brodersen lies dead next to his hunting rifle in the wheat field. Commissioner Helene Christ and her colleague Nuri Önal quickly discover that the Brodersen family business was on the brink of collapse. Did the farmer choose to take his own life out of shame? Yet strangely, apart from the widow, no one who knew him seems to mourn the patriarch—not even his children. In the village, the stubborn old man had no friends, and a large agricultural entrepreneur, with whom Brodersen had been feuding since childhood, even finds the death convenient. In the long-established farming family, Helene Christ uncovers a chasm of domestic violence, which the fanatically religious widow stubbornly remains silent about. It takes another crime before the dark family secret of the Brodersens slowly comes to light.