Two couples: on one side Wolgang and Barbara Kranich and on the other side Hubert and Jutta Scholz. Hubert is the brother of Barbara Kranich. Then a fifth character , Georgia Fenner , a private detective. Both couples went to a restaurant for celebrating Hubert's birthday. Suddenly the talk become bitter and Jutta leaves the restaurant,her husband follows her, then Wolfgang and Barbara leave also the the restaurant. In the night Barbara is killed by a shot coming from the garden. Little by little Leo Kress and his team know the secrets of the characters; love affair, rancor because an accident, bankrupcy of a business.
A good case of murder investigation with good actors and actresses : Thekla Carola Wied, Krista Posch, Ute Willing, Manfred Zapatka andFriedrich Von Thun.