Early in the morning Chief Inspector Bruno Schumann (Christian Berkel) is called to a site of discovery. An approximately 16-year-old boy lies crammed into a large bag that has been salvaged from a canal. Who had motive for such a cruel act? A world collapses for the entrepreneurial couple Voelk. The dead one is her son Chris (Patrick Khatami). Schumann offers the image of a neglect of prosperity. Because of their company, the people had little time for their boy, who got even more money for it. The more unpleasant was the contact of his pretty daughter Leila with the arrogant Chris. The snob has been dealing drugs and seduced his teammates Dirk Tillmann and Michael Büssig (Max Riemelt) to drink alcohol.