Decades ago, five people died in the moor. Today, the murder continues. A dangerous mission for Inspector Jakob Seidel and podcaster Nelli Grimm begins ... Never to return - that's what Detective Inspector Jakob Seidel swore to himself when he left his northern German home village of Zarrenmoor years ago. Then 18-year-old Bastian is found hanged in a shed in the moor, the police declare the case a suicide. But Jakob, who knew the dead man, has doubts and begins to investigate in the village. Only one other person also believes that it is a crime - Nelli Grimm, who is currently researching an unsolved series of murders from the 1930s for her True Crime Podcast in Zarrenmoor. When more bodies are discovered in the moor, the two work feverishly to establish a connection to the old cases. But then the perpetrator comes to get his last victim - and in the vastness of the moor a hunt for life and death begins ...