The young high school student Jessi has a date and is dressing up for it. But not in the disco, she goes to the nearby forest on the outskirts. A short time later she is dead. First, a carbon arrow hits her in the thigh, then a knife stab in the heart. When a jogger found the body the next day, it showed, among other things, bite marks and a twig in its mouth. The Saarland police investigative team around the chief inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk is faced with a riddle, because the branch in the mouth indicates an old hunter's custom. Is it a ritual crime?

Der Herr des Waldes

It follows Maret, who has lost parts of her memory. Neurosurgeons promise to restore it, but the tests she has to undergo and the behaviour of one doctor in particular cause her concern. She may not want to remember who she was.