Thomas Franke

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely by the private sector from now on. The insurance group TRUST.Wohltat is at the forefront. Well-heeled customers take out pension contracts by buying a "genetically clean" person - a so-called talent - and having them work for TRUST.Wohltat for a good return. 28-year-old Luca Permann is one such talent. His owners order a child from the company - bred from Luca's genetic material. They choose Hannah Bitlik, a young, genetically clean woman, as the surrogate mother. When Luca is confronted with the fact that, contrary to all expectations, he has a genetic defect, he begins to doubt himself for the first time. The child is to be aborted, but Hannah refuses and breaks off contact with TRUST.Wohltat...