July 1934, Bavaria. And the SS have just shot Captain Rohm and his fellow leaders of the S.A. It's clear where Karl's loyalties shoudl lie. But life has a habit of giving us choices which are anything but clear.

Take Gustav: since he learned how to dream, he's been dreaming of a heroic life and death on the battlefield. But the first corpse he stumbles across isn't an enemy soldier like it should be - it's the body of a murdered woman in a clearing not a mile from his house.

Or Ludwig, the amateur herbalist who's never had ambitions beyond one day taking over the family farm. Now he finds himself embroiled in robbbing the garden of a local Party bigwig.

And Miti: beautiful, blonde, rich and talented, she shouldn't have problems beyond deciding what dress to wear for the next party. But instead, she's obssessed with questions of damnation and guilt - questions which only get more pressing as she leads her friends in a hunt to find the murderer.