Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff, who has recently moved to the Munich Homicide Commission as Chief Detective Officer, is immediately confronted with a tricky case. She has arrested a suspected serial killer, everything speaks for his guilt, but the evidence is missing. She needs a confession to pull the dangerous perpetrator out of circulation until midnight, otherwise the judges will release him. The accused is highly intelligent, the team's nerves are on edge, an interrogation specialist is called in. And Eyckhoff has to fight until the last minute .