What is a cunning private detective from Vienna doing in Hessen? He is put on to his daughter’s kidnappers by an asset manager. However, nothing about this abduction is as it seems...
With an absurd idea a British consultant helps the son of a silk-tie-manufacturer achieve the biggest success of his life – not without collateral damage of course.
Driven by gruesome rumors, two boarding school students ascend the lonley tower. There they find a preserved heart that is absolutely not dead and turns the boys’ lives upside down.

From crime story to political satire: Stefan Slupetzky covers it all in his ten sharp-tongued short stories.
Pointed, multilayered and subtle!