Police officer Hannes Bucher's marriage is crumbling. Years ago he married into the Hartmann brothers' clan and although he loves his wife Maria and his disabled daughter Sandra, the marriage is crumbling. The disaster takes its course when Bucher picks up his niece Rosa drunk and without a driver's license with her friend Gregor during a nightly vehicle inspection. In order to prevent a complaint, Rosa seduces Hannes. Gregor is a witness to it all. Hannes lets the two of them drive on, and that same night Rosa dies in a car accident. Gregor then lies in a coma and becomes a ticking time bomb for Bucher. Rosa's half-brother Sebastian tries fanatically to uncover the background of her death and the more Hannes tries to cover up everything, the more he comes under pressure. While the noose around his neck is tightening, Hannes encounters the full handling of the corrupt machinations of the Hartmann clan.