Don't cry, for your tears are all he wants. Present day: When a young woman collapses dead at a party in front of everyone, a nightmare begins for her roommate Leonie. Did the murderer have her in his sights from the very beginning? Commissioner Oliver Bergmann is investigating at full speed. Not only is he troubled by the case of the young woman, but also by a strangely staged double murder of two couples. A secret recipe from the Middle Ages leads Oliver onto the trail of the serial killer. But another woman disappears, and time is running out for Leonie as well. Zons 1497: A cloth merchant and his fiancée are found murdered. They are seated at a table, their gazes fixed on each other. Even in death, they still look into each other's eyes. Bastian Mühlenberg is horrified. What on earth could this mean? Another murder leads him to e.