A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.

The celebrated writer Carlo Conti, the superstar among writers for lusty and intimate stories, only wants to sleep and enjoy his inertia. Coerced by his girlfriend and lured by his agent, he nevertheless allows himself to be persuaded to take on an assignment and now he invents erotic stories and scripts taken from everyday life on a continuous basis.

Young forester Sixt is wounded one night. Smuggling in the mountains is the reason. By day, the brothers Benno and Simon Schaidler are respectable citizens - by night, they are smugglers and poachers. They daredevilly pursue their nocturnal "craft". However, a number of people in Aurach have no idea of the smugglers' activities. For example Barbara, the landlady of the "Gamsbock", and her sister Gretl. One night Sixt, the young forester, is wounded by a pistol shot. Suspicion falls on forester Aiblinger, since it is his lost service pistol that is found near the wounded man.

Explores the mental state of Mozart during production of his final opera "Die Zauberflöte".

A man kills women because he was not loved by his mother and in his puberty he was dismissed by girls as sexually unattractive. And whenever he meets women now, he just cannot control himself.