During a large-scale operation in the town of Bad Kreuznach, investigators from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt) Marten S. Schneider and Sabine Németh are trying to arrest the scientist Paul Konrad, who is suspected of planning an unprecedented series of terrorist attacks. However, Konrad manages to escape, and Schneider, along with his team, launches a pursuit. Meanwhile, in Kufstein, security consultant Lea Fuchs was only planning to celebrate her birthday—but, through her own mistake, she finds herself pulled into an extremely dangerous situation. Trying to get out of it, Lea devises a ruthless and risky plan—and not even realizing that, at the moment it is put into action, she will come face to face with Schneider. This encounter completely changes the course of Schneider’s investigation and puts the lives of both of them at risk…