Police inspector Gerti Bruckner faces challenges with her marriage, upcoming promotion, and a murder case in her neighborhood. Investigating with her younger superior brings old stories back to light and brings her personal environment closer.
1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.