A multi-layered crime novel about the consequences of flight and terror. In the Zurich Schauspielhaus, the Jewish author Dan Weisz is brutally attacked. The investigation expands: Commissioner Werner Meier scrutinizes right-wing extremist circles in the Oberland, while his girlfriend Zita Schnyder delves into the private life of the renowned author in London. Until a gruesome discovery at the idyllic Greifensee leads the investigator duo back to the 1980s.