독일군으로 끌려갔던 에스벤은 부상을 입고 덴마크로 돌아오지만 또 2차 징집을 당할 위기에 처한다. 궁리 끝에 죽은 척을 하고 다락방에 숨기로 한 에스벤. 하지만 독일군 게르하르트 대위는 에스벤의 죽음을 의심하고 그 와중에 아내는 에스벤의 아이까지 임신한다. 이대로 가면 자신의 존재가 발각될 상황. 에스벤은 어쩔 수 없이 아내에게 게르하르트 대위를 유혹해 그의 아이인 척 꾸미라고 제안한다.
As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with a boyfriend problem, regularly shows up late for her appointments, she rocks his world in ways he's not ready for.
For their bicycle tour to Catmoor, the friends Julian, Dick and Anne, their cousin Georgina, called George, and her dog Timmy have long looked forward to. But the camping holiday in the countryside ends with the kidnapping of Dick, confuse the two underprivileged hoodlums with the same age millionaire's son Hardy. With sophistication and courage, the five friends take on his trail that leads from a mysterious traveling circus to the castle "Owls Nest" where the kidnappers force Dick to coax the clue to a giant emerald.
Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves into his grand-uncles somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: Four decades ago, his grand-cousin Cecilia, at the same age as he is now, lost her life in the mansions impressive staircase, and the circumstances of her death still remain obscure.
