Ultimately, both cases come together when the child who is said to have killed Mattner has allegedly abducted as Daina.
In order to motivate Nora to continue working on the case, her niece is released.
She resorts to successful, but illegal means to free the girls held by the trafficking ring.
Weiss works with Simon Brandt, a colleague who moved from Dortmund to Lübeck.
Nora Weiss' father is a pastor and had helped citizens flee from the GDR.