Already many of the residents of a small mountain village have emigrated. As a result of all the remaining folks know one another, many of the affairs are dealt with amongst themselves. After one of many native hunter dies after a fall from a deer stand, the policeman Georg Treichel and policewoman Martina Schober imagine on a tragic accident. However then it seems that one of many rungs of the ladder was manipulated, and the whole lot factors towards a homicide.