Manzetti's second case. Chief Inspector Manzetti encounters a bizarre scene near the Brandenburg Theater. A young woman in strikingly old-fashioned clothing lies dead on a pub table. Her icy hands are tucked into an antique muff, and the handle of a letter opener protrudes from her chest. There is a witness, but he is hardly able to speak. Then a colleague from Hamburg reports a similar crime in his city that was never solved. Is the murderer planning further acts? Manzetti's investigations lead him into the theater milieu. But are even the orchestra musicians playing a role in this case? And what does Puccini have to do with the murder?.