Far-off in the blue-black fir forest lies the murder farm. The entire Danner family was brutally murdered with a pickaxe here, including the children and the new maid. No one in the village noticed anything of this gruesome act. But no one is surprised either seeing that the old Danner was a tyrant and a miser who had alienated everyone around him. His pious wife spoke with no one and daughter Barbara’s children were said to be the old Danner’s… When Kathrin (26) shows up a few years later to bury her mother the village is till marked by fear and terror. The murderer was never found. The contradictory insinuations about her mother irritate Kathrin, and she begins to sense that the murder may be closer connected to her than she would care for…
