André Kaczmarczyk

Chief Inspector Adam Raczek gets a new partner at his side. Inspector aspirant Vincent Ross becomes involved in a murder investigation before his first day on the job. Ironically, the 22-year-old Bastian Grutzke was murdered above his new apartment in Slubice. The day before, the German student helped him move into the house. Adam Raczek, who is interviewing witnesses at the scene of the crime, is amazed to get to know his new colleague in this way. The traces in the victim's apartment point to a dispute that seems to be related to escalating inheritance disputes in the Grutzke family. Bastian's grandmother, the matriarch Hilde Grutzke, keeps a considerable amount of cash at home and sometimes opens the door at gunpoint. Her relationship with her family is strained and extremely distant. Does the question of who will inherit the old lady's fortune also solve the murder case?

Patriarch and entrepreneur August Manzl is terminally ill. As his four grown-up children are all spoiled and sluggish, he comes up with a rather cynical idea to determine the future leader of the families empire: whoever of his children shows the courage and willpower to end his suffering within the next week will become the sole heir - and simultaneously proof the skills necessary to succeed in a modern business world. Between the children a murderous competition evolves.

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.