A phone call disrupts the summery lull at police headquarters in Bolzano. Ispettore Saltapepe, who is on vacation in Toblach, asks Commissario Grauner to help out: In the town where the Naples soccer club SSC Napoli goes for summer training in July, a young player has disappeared. For the Commissario, there’s nothing more boring than soccer. What he’s interested in is peace and quiet. And classical music – so it’s a nice coincidence that the annual Gustav-Mahler music weeks happen to be taking place in Puster Valley. When Grauner arrives there, he unexpectedly finds himself at a carousing party in a hotel room of the Napoli players, who don’t only have good things to say about their missing teammate. When a gruesome discovery is made in the trunk of a car and the entire town starts searching for a shepherd boy, the investigators suspect that no one here is playing by the rules.
