The Steingruberhof is a secluded place. When a journalist is found murdered on the grounds of the ecologically living farm community and suspicion falls on the residents, the young lawyer is supposed to help Eva. She is the daughter of the charismatic founder and lived in the commune as a child. Now she returns - in the middle of a shimmering hot summer that acts like a magnifying glass to old conflicts and suppressed memories. The place that was once her home seems strange to her. What are the people Eva thought she knew hiding? In her search for answers, she comes across a wall of silence - and soon finds herself in mortal danger ...