They say the dead can't hurt anymore, the living are to be feared. And yet, in this detective story, he shows up to cause death.

While on holiday in a mountain cabin somewhere in the borderlands, a friend of Detective Horác, the painter Stepán, is murdered. But who could have had a motive for the crime? Who was so uncomfortable with the man that he had to remove him? The secret may lie in a painting that is displayed in the pub's taproom. And is the painting really what it appears to be at first glance? In the cottage, Horác has met not only Stepán, but also his former love Emka and her current husband, the innkeeper Síma is also painting, and a married couple of hikers is also suspicious.—EuroFan