Paul Flemming's first case. While the crowds listen to the prologue of the Christkind, a fat man falls from the meat bridge and drowns in the Pegnitz. It is - of all people - the head of the tourism office, whose death casts a shadow over the opening of the Christkindlesmarkt. Yet, even with such high alcohol levels found in his blood, a self-inflicted accident seems questionable. Photographer Paul Flemming is not only notoriously broke but also notoriously curious. Together with the washed-up tabloid journalist Victor Blohfeld and the young prosecutor Blohm, he probes into the depths of Nuremberg and discovers that the deceased had not only many women but also many enemies. And a strange passion for the works of Albrecht Dürer that had only awakened shortly before his death.