

He spent the Great War in Russian warfare. When the former detective returns to his hometown of Vienna in 1920, he knows that the former Empire is now a Republic, his wife has left the city, plagued by nightmares. And a serial killer makes the city unsafe, leaving his victims in bizarre and sometimes even mutilated ways. At first, Perg himself becomes the focus of the investigations of the young inspector Poul Severin (Max von der Grosban) and the court investigator Theresa Körner (Liv Lisa Fries), but then they join forces to catch the Beast of Vienna before there can be further murders. Because the killer has not yet finished his work.