DICHTER, ANWALT, ERMITTLER - Theodor Storm and his mysterious assistant Söt in Husum: a North Sea coastal thriller full of suspense and historical atmosphere. Husum, 1843: the town is in an uproar. A vat of blood, in it a corpse that turns out to be a wax doll. A little later, a real dead body is found. The young lawyer Theodor Storm investigates the mystery, in old village churches and in front of Husum's dikes. He and his mysterious scribe Peter Söt are confronted with the impotent rage of poor farmers and the arrogant silence of the rich. Until he comes across an almost forgotten shipping accident, an old debt and a murderer who wants to collect this debt...