A winter morning in Kitzbühel. After a night of heavy snowfall, children discover a body buried in the snow just a few metres from a house. The victim is Harald Riedl, head of accounting for one of the region's most influential families and a close associate of the Falkenrieds.
The investigation moves quickly, and the pieces begin to fall into place. Lukas Falkenried, a well-known psychologist and the family's heir, had maintained a strained relationship with the victim for months. Evidence surfaces, statements align, and the case against him takes shape without visible gaps.
While the police continue their work, life inside the Falkenried household carries on. Riedl's widow remains close to the family, an illness confines the younger son with no clear diagnosis, and the parents, increasingly weakened, rely on a presence that has become almost indispensable.
When Lukas is arrested in public, the case appears settled.
But some things leave no immediate trace. And others remain too close to be seen.
