The corpse of Eifel-resident Mathilde Vogt and the dead “Cherie” are found not far away from each other. Are these two murders linked? Assisted by his friend, the retired criminal councillor Rodenstock, and his partner Emma journalist Siggi Baumeister comes across a connection: “Cherie” was the lover of entrepreneur Julius Berner who owns a hunting ground in the Eifel. Mathilde Vogt on her part was a hunter, too, and went deer-stalking at night frequently. Then “Scarface Otto”, a former homeless man who was supported by Berner is murdered. Did “Cherie” and “Scarface Otto” know anything that led to their deaths? And what is the secret of Stefan Hommes, Berner’s gamekeeper?