The attractive and charismatic extreme mountaineer Max Hauser is found stabbed to death in his hotel room. Shortly before that, he was seen with Franziska Reiter, who was still a minor. In addition, the chambermaid Anita Holzer makes rape allegations against Hauser. Franziska is now alarmed and fears that her angry father Wolfram could have something to do with the murder. In addition, the mountaineer Gernot Gangl appears, who liked to carry out his enmity with Hauser in public.