Vienna 1913, one of the world's most cultured and vibrant cities, is shaken when a vicious serial killer targets young, attractive women. Under pressure from politicians, an unforgiving press corps and their superiors in the police department, detectives Stebbel and Dörfner must call upon the skills of two real-life figures living in Vienna at the time: Sigmund Freud, the psychiatrist; and another even more unlikely hero, a young artist known to associates as Adolf.