The body of a young woman is found on the side of the road. The killer himself turns up to the police - and nevertheless receives life imprisonment by a jury verdict. But is he a murderer? Did he strangle his twenty-five-year-old fellow traveler intentionally, or through negligence, or did she herself suffocate in his arms? Hans Arbogast spends fourteen years behind bars, and when he is released, the matter becomes even more complicated. Social detective novel by German prose writer Thomas Hethe (b. 1964 d.) became an international bestseller.