Young detective Susanne Landauer who works for the Munich's missing persons department is confronted with her past through a mysterious case. A woman has escaped from a psychiatric hospital and drowned in a river. A DNA comparison reveals that the deceased is Susanne's mother. She cannot believe this, as she believed that her mother had died 30 years ago. She begins to investigate on her own and meets her eccentric father Josef Landauer, whom she has long avoided...

DIE TOTE AUS DER SCHLUCHT was commissioned by ZDF.