Max Liebermann, a medical student and disciple of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Reinhardt investigate a series of disturbing murders in 20th-century Vienna.
The collaboration between Max and Inspector Oskar continues in the second part, as they investigate the suicide of a woman in a hotel. A body is found and Oskar is warned to focus on the case. Max and Oskar come to understand the power of faith while investigating the murder of a monk.