The Wine Quarter's cult gendarme is back on duty: A drowned Japanese man in the cellar alley, gunshots in the wine cellar - twelve new cases for the hard-drinking Inspector Simon Polt. Alfred Komarek skillfully weaves a narrative from Polt's early days in the gendarmerie to his life as a retired investigator, showcasing new encounters with Polt and the people around him - and not least with the cat Czernohorsky.