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Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared many years ago. Her research triggers a brutal murder. Traces in the forest soil and pointer plants lead her to deeper layers of guilt and crime.

Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder. Disturbances in the forest floor and pointer plants force her on the trail of deeper layers of guilt and crime and trigger a catastrophe.

Anja Grimm has a sixth sense. She reads the forest like nobody else. The young woman is in her late 20s and is doing an internship at the Neustadt forestry office in the Upper Palatinate in the late 90s. But the forestry student from Munich seems to have been drawn to the remote area for more than just professional reasons. The inhabitants of the community whose fields and forests Anja is supposed to map suspect, suspect and fear this. And Anja herself? She finds the villagers' behavior towards her strange from the start, and increasingly hostile. In fact, the young woman has a connection with the remote community: when Anja was a child, she spent a vacation in the area with her parents. Her father disappeared into the forest and never reappeared. Anja and her mother never got over the sudden loss of her father. When a murder finally takes place and the perpetrator commits suicide, Anja finds herself on the trail of a terrible secret. The trail leads back to the village's past, to a time long before her father's disappearance: the final months of the Second World War. Anja's life is put in danger when she confronts the oppressive silence of her parents and grandparents with her search for the truth.—Arte

28-year-old Anja Grimm is completing a forestry internship in the Bavarian Forest. During mapping work she has a disturbing encounter with the mentally retarded Xaver Leybach. Shortly afterwards, a brutal murder occurs: Xaver kills his aged, bedridden mother with a spade.

After the first shock, a terrible suspicion arises in Anja:Twenty years ago, in a similar fit of insanity, the mentally disturbed Xaver also killed her father and buried him in the forest? Traces of excavations in the forest floor, which she comes across during her mapping work, confirm her suspicion. Anja continues to investigate, obsessed with the search for an answer to her father's fate on the trail of conspicuous features in nature. The village community observes the young trainee with increasing suspicion. Rupert Gollas, with whom she played as a child, falls in love with Anja, but fears that Anja's insistence on further investigations will damage her image for the region.His interest is the same as that of his parents and grandparents' generation, because Anja's mysterious ability to read the forest leads her on the trail of something that even the local police want to keep hidden.

Twenty years ago, in a similar fit of insanity, the mentally disturbed Xaver also killed her father and buried him in the forest? Traces of excavations in the forest floor, which she comes across during her mapping work, confirm her suspicion. Anja continues to investigate, obsessed with the search for an answer to her father's fate on the trail of conspicuous features in nature. The village community observes the young trainee with increasing suspicion. Rupert Gollas, with whom she played as a child, falls in love with Anja, but fears that Anja's insistence on further investigations will damage her image for the region.His interest is the same as that of his parents and grandparents' generation, because Anja's mysterious ability to read the forest leads her on the trail of something that even the local police want to keep hidden.

Shortly afterwards, the skeleton of Anja's father's body is found. Everything points to the fact that the deranged Xaver killed him twenty years ago. When Xaver also commits suicide in the psychiatric ward a little later, his guilt seems to be established.

Anja pretends to be leaving, but returns at night to surprise Rupert and other men in the village, who, under cover of darkness, are in the process of hiding the skulls and bones of a mass grave from the last days of the war under cement, forever untraceable.

What was to be Anja's father's fate twenty years ago is now threatening to become her fate as well.But the present ends differently: in a dramatic showdown, the perpetrators and their children suddenly face each other, who pay a high price to finally break the circle of denial and repression.