In the Tyrolean mountains, a Black African asylum seeker is found murdered. The investigation by the local criminal police—led by Inspector Pfurtscheller—hits a dead end. Using the pretext that the crime might be a politically motivated assassination, Pfurtscheller manages to persuade the Ministry of the Interior to assign his old acquaintance—the Viennese special investigator Moritz Eisner—to this explosive case. [Eisner (Vienna) & Pfurtscheller (Innsbruck)]