A difficult case fell to the chief commissioner of the Hofheim criminal inspectorate, Oliver von Bodenstein, and his assistant Pia Kirchhoff. A severed hand and foot of a man were found on the territory of the zoo. Soon the body itself was found. The deceased is the leader of the local “greens” and youth idol Hans Ulrich Pauli. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff compiled a list of suspects, but there were so many of them that the matter became extremely complicated. Pauli, direct and sharp by nature, managed to cross the path of a lot of different people, each of whom could kill the ruff truth-teller. And newly discovered facts only further confused the investigation. Everything is intertwined in the most bizarre way. But the solution to this riddle turned out to be truly incredible...