Blurb Actually, eight-year-old Heiko only wanted to buy sweets. Now he looks shocked at Maria Bauer, who is lying in a pool of blood behind the checkout counter of the gas station. When he calls for help, Heikö has to confess to his mother where he got the money for sweets. So he grabs fruit gum snakes and flees with a guilty conscience. The next day, five-year-old Leni Bauer disappears. And Heiko identifies Klaus Pollack, her mother's boyfriend with a criminal record, as the man who stormed out of the checkout room just as he was about to get in. The evidence is thin, but Pollack ends up in prison. 30 years later, Heiko, who now works as a forensic technician, is once again confronted with the Leni Bauer case. Klaus Pollack is released, and a bloody double murder forces Inspectors Klinkhammer and Grovian to re-examine the old case. Little by little, they discover the connections and bring a dark truth to light ...