Holm Brendel, from the nearby Heringsdorf police, asks Karin Lossow to visit Martina Gentsch, his girlfriend from high school. She has been in pre-trial detention for two years for shooting her lover - in self-defence, she says. But the prosecution retained the murder. Martina claims that the lead investigator, Lucjan Gadocha, removed the evidence that proved her story. It seems, however, that Martina's release is within reach when her lawyer dies in a car accident that evening.
