Private detective Josef Matula investigates again. More bad than right, he hits in Frankfurt as a department store detective until it leads him to a new order to the North Sea coast.
An unfortunate misunderstanding leads to another and suddenly Isabel is caught in a web of lies. A web of ghastly lies: She lets her friends believe that she is suffering from cancer. The sudden gush of attention that she experiences makes her long for more. It becomes an addiction she can not resist. Just as she begins to have doubts, she has to realize that she has gone too far for truth.
On her 18th birthday, Constanze encounters a highly guarded secret. She discovers in amazement that she has six brothers, who have been transformed into snow-white swans by a careless word from their father on the day of Constanze's birth. Constanze is stunned when suddenly the six swans appear. They explain to her sister that only she alone can curse the curse: for six years Constanze could not speak a single word and has to sew shirts made of stinging nettles. The shirts will be able to turn the swans back into people.
