The young Viennese private detective Elena Gerink has the reputation of having found every missing person so far. But the search for the disappeared world-famous painter Salvatore Del Vecchio turns out to be more difficult than expected. When a last painting of him unexpectedly appears, it shows her the way to the oppressive humidity of Tuscany. In Florence, Elena meets her ex-husband Peter Gerink, who, as a specialist for the Federal Criminal Police Office, is looking for an Austrian woman who has disappeared in Italy. Soon they realize that the events are connected - in such a perfidious and bloody way that Elena and Peter hardly seem to be up to the case even together ...