For Christian Höflinger (Franz Hartwig) and his bride (Sina Reiß) it should have been the most beautiful day of their lives, but the traditional bride kidnapping has a dramatic ending. After a long manhunt, the groom finally finds her murdered in a nature reserve for cormorants.
Who could have had a motive to kill Maja? Does it have anything to do with the environmental action group where they were involved. Or did someone have something against the fact that beautiful Maja was about to marry into the wealthy family headed by Erich (Harald Krassnitzer) and Johanna Höflinger (Sissy Höfferer)?
In the course of the investigation Zeiler and Oberländer will discover a family tragedy, that goes far back into Christian’s childhood.