His old passion goes back to his early years when he had played on stage, and planned making the acting to his profession, but then opted for the supposedly safer career with the police.
The premiere of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex – Hunkeler fascinated, Hedwig sleeping – turns upside down, as one of the actors, Walter Rutziska, is sabotaging the production by suddenly showing up drunk in the audience and insulting the audience.
The "Provence", the name of the yacht the party was onboard it, disappears in the night, and the next morning is found leaderless and damaged on a dam downriver.
Bernhard Vetter is missing, and a short time later fished out of the Rhine river, having empty eye sockets...
The Swiss German language movie bases on the 2010 novel Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus by Hansjörg Schneider,[2] and was filmed at locations in Basel, at the Rhein river respectively in Switzerland and Germany, as well as in the neighboring Alsace (France).