An idyllic village in the Westerwald: Mariensicht. Journalist Katharina and her husband move here to make a new start. But the forester's lodge they now live in hides a dark secret. Decades ago, Mariensicht was shaken by a sensational murder for which the then owner, Flora, was convicted. But did the silent woman really kill her own husband and cruelly mutilate him? And why was a cut braid lying next to the dead man?