In 1953, the disfigured bodies of two boys are exhumed at a construction site, the future location of Winden’s nuclear power plant.

When a grim discovery leaves the police baffled, Ulrich seeks a search warrant for the power plant. A mysterious stranger checks into the hotel.

In 2019, a local boy’s disappearance stokes fear in the residents of Winden, a small German town with a strange and tragic history.