When the pensioner Horst Claasen (Dieter Schaad) kills his wife, who is suffering from dementia, the Bremen investigators Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) are confronted with a social taboo topic. Was Horst Claasen really unable to afford home care? The appraiser Carsten Kühne (Peter Heinrich Brix) introduces the investigators layer by layer to the everyday life of carers who selflessly take care of their relatives. The inspectors find themselves in a blind corner of the German care system, they catch their breath in the face of injustice and personal fate.