A gripping, humorous crime novel about the darkest chapter in the history of winemaking in Rheinhessen. A summer like no other: It rains incessantly in Rheinhessen. The grapes are rotting, and the winemakers fear for their harvest. When thousands of liters of wine flow into the sewer, the oldest vines in the village are destroyed, and a headless corpse appears, it dawns on the locals that there are still some unresolved issues since the glycol scandal of 1985. Winemaker Kurt-Otto Hattemer begins to investigate - and puts himself in grave danger.