Anton Glock is on the rise. When he is offered the position of head of the central strategy department of a large Munich company, Schuegraf AG, events suddenly spiral out of control: an acquaintance is brutally mutilated, his superior commits suicide, and he receives mysterious threatening messages. The ambitious Glock must realize that in his new area of responsibility, there are secret departments that do not appear on any organizational chart. He tries to make sense of the occurrences and delves deeply into the structures and unofficial networks of the corporation he thought he knew so well.