Overview
- The episode opens with bloodied teenager Amanda fleeing a veterinary practice in Dresden, with a dead woman found at the scene and a later confrontation at the Neustadt station involving a scalpel.
- Amanda tells police she spent her childhood locked in a cellar and pleads for help for her sister Jana, whom she fears is still confined and being starved by their father.
- Kommissarin Leonie Winkler pushes to investigate despite skepticism from her boss Peter Michael Schnabel and a youth psychologist, securing 24 hours to pursue the lead.
- A criminal-technical finding later puts Amanda under temporary murder suspicion, sharpening the story's ambiguity without resolving the central mystery.
- Reviews highlight Neumeister's intense performance and the production's dark tone, note parallels to real abduction cases, and place this as the Dresden team's second post-Gorniak case airing at 20:15 on ARD.