Maria travels to the Mediterranean to help people who are stranded at sea. Marcel founds an escort service to protect women from “intrusive immigrants.” Petra takes in a traumatized refugee. And the asylum shelter director Gerald is put to the test by a resident.
Just letting loose – that is Samiel’s wish for his journey to Krakow. On the bus, there is already some chemistry between him and Nina. He hopes to finally lose his virginity, but can’t really climax once he gets to that one moment. Samiel simply doesn’t feel it.
Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.
Fabian, sixteen years old and overweight, lives alone with his mother. He tries to lose weight, and knows at least theoretically how to cut calories. When his mother invites a new acquaintance to dinner, Fabian tests him on his mental nutritional content.
The blind former chief inspector Alexander Haller has experience with kidnappings. This time he is in an unfamiliar position: His sister Sophie was kidnapped while visiting the theater with Niko. The assumption that it is about 50,000 euros, which Haller's private driver owes the betting mafia, turns out to be the wrong track. The hostage takers are asking for 750,000 euros and seem to be well informed about the Hallers ...
Tommi wants to practice shooting. But his younger brother Simon is also fascinated with their father's gun and insists on coming with him into the woods. Soon, their naive play-fights take a serious turn.
