Der Wald

Murder or Suicide? A girl falls off a highway bridge at night, directly onto a couple's parked car. The team led by Ellen Lucas routinely takes on the investigation. Forensic medicine quickly delivers the first results. Everything indicates that the dead person must have been in the adjacent forest beforehand. The investigations lead Ellen Lucas and her team to an organic farm in the forest run by Heiko Wolf. Some time ago, Heiko Wolf took in Peter Schwertz and his family. Years ago he and his family had emigrated to remote Canada. Now they are back because his wife Monika could no longer stand the loneliness, but neither could her husband. But even the Ökohof was not a permanent home for the torn family.
Why did the mother go to town alone? And why did Peter Schwertz move into the forest with his two daughters? And why does no one know exactly where they are? The team around Ellen Lucas scours the forest, especially since not even Monika Schwertz knows the whereabouts of her children. And then it becomes clear: the dead person is 16-year-old Johanna Schwertz. The helpful forester Henning Niemeyer initially seems to be a great support in the search - until he gets caught up in false statements. What relationship did Heiko Wolf have to Johanna? And did the handicapped boy Hans, son of the local country disco owner, really only watch the lovers? With a great deal of finesse, Inspector Lucas succeeds in apprehending the perpetrator in the forest.