Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders. Sophie Haas, successful and ambitious Cologne detective superintendent, no longer understands the world - instead of being appointed head of the Cologne homicide department as she had hoped, she is transferred to Hengasch, a small sleepy nest in the middle of the Eifel. There, her father Hannes, a retired and lonely orthopedist, has rented a house for the two of them without her knowledge. The private shock is followed by professional frustration: Hengasch and its surroundings present themselves as an 'ideal world', and according to her new colleagues Bärbel and Dietmar, who, from Sophie's point of view, take a lot of getting used to, there have rarely been any criminals here. Out of sheer boredom, Sophie throws herself into an unsolved case that officially isn't one at all; a few years ago, the mayor of Hengasch disappeared, and supposedly no one knows what happened to him. Did his own wife have him on her conscience? Or someone from the village who didn't like the politics of the community? Or was the man simply fed up with village and married life and has since been making himself comfortable on an island in the Indian Ocean? Sophie investigates and apparently solves the mystery of an arson 30 years ago.