The completely drained body of an Africa expert is discovered on a dreary winter day. It's a top-notch professional job, as Criminal Inspector Max Pfeffer from the Munich police notes. A wooden figure, a dead gallery owner, and the beautiful Helene - Max Pfeffer is not in his element. His understanding of art is limited to cool acid jazz, and he has no luck with women at all. Pfeffer lives with his partner in a single-family home in Munich and struggles with raising two sons. While his twelve-year-old has just discovered Britney Spears, Cosmo, the frontman of the hip-hop band Volle Härte, has already outgrown his father at sixteen - and unknowingly withholds an important piece of evidence in Pfeffer's new case. What does Africa have to do with the murder - the former German colony of Cameroon, the Ndjamele tribe, the legend of Akassi, and A.