The action of this crime story is set in Warsaw in June 1942. In suspicious circumstances, the wife of a respected lawyer is murdered. A detective, who is as an officer of the Navy Police cooperating with Germany, and at the same time a sworn soldier of the Polish underground, tries to solve the mysterious murder. Further clues multiply suspicions and reveal the deeply hidden secrets of the deceased and unclear connections of the lawyer with a high-rank SS officer. Will the inspector find the woman_s murderer before he kills his next victim?