Inspector Charlotte Lindholm travels privately to Hamburg to secretly meet a man in a hotel. But when she arrives at the luxury hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, the man is dead. Of course, the inspector is targeted by her colleagues in Hamburg. So Lindholm does everything to prove her innocence and begins to investigate herself: Was the murderer one of the Udo Lindenberg doubles who are in the hotel because of a casting? She uncovers clues that the murder may have been a trap. Is there even an act of revenge on the commissioner behind all this? For Udo Lindenberg it is the first appearance in a "crime scene". Musically, however, Lindenberg has long been associated with the crime series - he played the drums on Klaus Doldinger's classic Tatort title music.

After this solo investigation, Charlotte Lindholm will solve the next case again in a duet with her Göttingen colleague Anaïs Schmitz.