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In Küstrin, the body of German managing director Olivia Briegel is found in a truck parked on the premises of a Polish scaffolding company. Detectives Vincent Ross and Alexandra Luschke are assigned to investigate on site and discover that...See moreIn Küstrin, the body of German managing director Olivia Briegel is found in a truck parked on the premises of a Polish scaffolding company. Detectives Vincent Ross and Alexandra Luschke are assigned to investigate on site and discover that the victim must have left the company alive shortly before her death to go jogging. The truck driver, Patryk Dobosz, who found the body, accuses his fellow countryman and colleague Jakub Sobinski of killing Olivia. Dobosz insinuates that he had ambitions to become the company's top manager. It quickly becomes clear: the location where the body was found is not the crime scene. The trail leads the detectives to the neighboring property, where a German-Polish amateur soccer club has its training grounds, and whose president was the victim. Olivia was apparently not only a busy woman with many responsibilities and interests, but also the mother of a 13-year-old boy. The detectives have the difficult task of informing the underage son, Marco Briegel, about his mother's death. Marco appears highly disturbed and withdrawn. Interviewing the boy is proving difficult; his mother apparently had an affair with an employee, of which the boy was aware. Since Marco has no other family, Luschke and Ross must notify a social worker from the youth welfare office, who is looking after the boy. Marco finds some support in his friends, Robert Sobinski and Kevin Jankowski, with whom he plays on the youth team. Together, they hope to pursue a professional career to get away from this situation. Even at the soccer club, Olivia wasn't popular with everyone due to her sometimes arbitrary decisions. Just a few weeks ago, the team's coach, Pawel, was fired against the boys' wishes, and a new coach, Hannes, was installed by Olivia. The detectives are trying to determine whether there was an incident that explains this last-minute coaching change before the big tournament, which involves important scouting for the boys. As the investigation progresses, it becomes clear that the crime must have occurred during a public viewing of the European Championship quarterfinal match between Germany and Spain. Did the perpetrator plan the murder, or is it a coincidence that almost all of the suspects had no alibi for the second half of the game? Who was able to sneak away unnoticed, who has the strongest motive? Who do Ross and Luschke believe is capable of the perfect murder? Written by ARD Das Erste See less