That was murder: a young man lies dead on the street, next to him is a holdall filled with 500,000 euros. The identity of the victim is quickly established. It is Ivo Klein, who celebrated his bachelor party with friends that evening. The fingerprints on the bag and on the cash lead Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk to Reiner Bertram, a renowned commercial lawyer in Cologne. When the inspectors confront him about Ivo Klein's death, Bertram admits that he deposited the money for a ransom demand. His granddaughter Charlotte Ritter has been kidnapped and the kidnappers have threatened to kill her if the police get involved... Now it's a race against time to find the kidnapped girl in time.