For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn't begin more auspiciously. He and three friends have won the lottery. It's a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, stumbling, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed twenty-eight times in the chest with a carving knife. After a cursory investigation that only leads to more questions than answers, Leverkuhn's quiet, weary wife confesses to her husband's murder. The case seems to have solved itself, but when the Leverkuhn's formidable neighbor Else Van Eck goes missing and is later discovered murdered in gruesome fashion, Detective Münster and his team find themselves back in the fog and chasing after wisps of clues that indicate that the murders are inextricably linked.