Writer Bernd wants to escape the hustle and bustle of the bustling city of Lüneburg and moves with his wife Moni to a lonely house in the moor. Monika is not really enthusiastic about it, there is no phone, no cell phone reception and no road connection to the nearest town Moorhausen. Bernd wants to make sure that at least one footbridge is repaired soon. This reassures his wife only to a limited extent: she doesn’t take the legend of the “moor devil” very seriously, but she doesn’t like the fact that the former tenant has disappeared without a trace, especially when strange things happen at night...