The manager Josef Micklitza appeared at the Dortmund police headquarters late in the evening, extremely nervous and soaked in the rain. He found a dead person with a gunshot wound on the port area. It is his financial advisor Claus Lembach, a heavyweight in the highly sensitive financial sector. While the Dortmund homicide commission is starting the investigation, the news of the murder startles the dead man's wealthy clientele, who have so far been spoiled by rich returns. Are their millions of assets in danger now or are they adequately secured by the private bank Roden? When the only witness is suddenly disappeared, his brother, the nightclub owner Micki, is the investigators' sights. The excessively drug-consuming half-world boss seems to have made contact with the murder victim's customers. Things get really complicated when Commissioner Jan Pawlak discovers that his missing wife is the main suspect's junkie sweetheart.

When Ana, a young compliance manager, discovers unusually high bills among her company's records, she can't imagine what an avalanche her research will set off. Not only does she cross paths with an aging small-time crook and a Viennese Mafia lord at an illegal bare-knuckle fight, she also runs into Carsten, an undercover investigator. He has long been on the trail of a network of money launderers and now faces a difficult decision — since he knows Ana all too well.

In a tranquil village, the two students Kerstin and Selina disappear one after the other. Both are 16, have unstable parents and were undergoing therapy at the “Herzland” riding stable. While the residents don't believe there was a crime, Julia Durant suspects the kidnapper is among them.

Magnus once had a girlfriend and a kid. But his girlfriend now has somebody new. And so now Magnus has his classic car, and a bar. Everything about Magnus’ manner makes him a hipster – par excellence. He has a couple of close friends, all cut from the same cloth. But then one night his car is stolen and Magnus falls into a kind of cultivated despair.

Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.