17-year-old Rada (Weronika Skwaroń) and her younger sister Anna (Mariella Aumann) feel imprisoned by their strictly religious mother (Katharina Schüttler). On the night of her 18th birthday, Rada climbs out of her room to celebrate with her boyfriend Dimitri (Yuri Völsch) - and then finally escape to freedom. According to Rada, her caring uncle Antoni (Peter Schneider), her late father's brother, helped her with her plan. But the next morning, Rada's body is found in a birch grove, ritually staged in a white dress. Forensic scientist Viktoria Wex (Claudia Eisinger) is under particular time pressure during the murder investigation: her husband (Piotr Witkowski), who was thought to be dead, has turned up and asks her to go into hiding with him within sixty hours. Now Viktoria has to realise that .