In Brussels, the threads come together - and a pig runs through the streets. Fenia Xenopoulou, an official in the Directorate-General for Culture of the European Commission, faces a difficult task. She is to polish the Commission's image. But how? She commissions the advisor Martin Susman to develop an idea. The idea takes shape - the shape of a ghost from history that causes unrest in the EU institutions. David de Vriend is fading away in a nursing home across from the Brussels cemetery, approaching his death. As a child, he jumped from a deportation train that led his parents to their deaths. Now he is to testify to what he is about to forget. Commissioner Brunfaut also faces a difficult task. For political reasons, he must let a murder case lie; "to file it away" would be too much to say, as the files are untraceable.