Small crimes. Dark dealings. Big politics. Hamburg 1902: When his adopted son David becomes involved in a manslaughter case, the unconventional lawyer Sören Bischop must once again take on the role of detective. The victim was a Jewish emigrant, and no one knows how he could have left the hermetically sealed emigration city on the Elbe island. When Sören goes to visit a witness, he not only finds a corpse but also a briefcase with highly suspicious documents in the dead man's luggage. He suspects that, as in this case, small crimes often lead to significant state actions...