Most of the residents of a small mountain village have emigrated. Because all of the remaining people know each other, most of the affairs are handled among themselves. After one of the local hunters dies due to a fall from a deer stand, the policeman Georg Treichel and policewoman Martina Schober believe it was a tragic accident. But, then, it turns out that one of the rungs of the ladder was manipulated, and everything points toward a murder. Shortly after, the farmer and hunter Hannes Guggenbauer survives an assault on his car, however, Treichel gets hurt badly and falls into a coma. Chief Inspector Acham from Klagenfurt comes to support Schober. Now, everyone suspects everyone else.