Were they the better people? Germany in the future. Diseases, imperfections, and addiction problems have been eradicated; health is the highest ideal. A world in which Commissioner Philipp Nix struggles to find his way. One day, when he stumbles upon a strangely looking corpse, it leads him to a gruesome mass grave in a valley near Düsseldorf. Are they Neanderthals? But why are the remains only thirty years old? Nix's investigations reveal a scandal that shakes the very foundations of future society.