For a long time now, advertising boss Rolf Mading has been receiving ingenious text ideas and suggestions for his political and business campaigns from a mysterious stranger named Tozcec (pronounced: Totschek). But the e-mail invitation leads to Mading's death. Horrified, Mading's daughter Ellen and son-in-law Michael cut short their Mallorca vacation to attend her father's funeral and settle the inheritance. The power-obsessed boss was by no means popular in the agency. Only Gunda Laux, Mading's assistant and lover, seems visibly touched by his death. The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr search for the unknown perpetrator with the active help of chief inspector Carlo Menzinger.