The Swabian term "chachappel" lovingly describes a "dye" or "depp", which stumbles naively and easily through life. This is how our hero Carlo Brenner, who comes from an Upper Swabian provincial village and is looking for himself, is also what he feels like.
Stuttgart is a town whose social, economic and cultural contrasts sometimes can't be reconciled without violence. It's a place that needs a special crime squad: Stuttgart Homicide. The team knows its turf inside out and glides smoothly from one level of society to another: from illegal betting clubs to mafia extortionists, from greedy quality inspectors to thieving firemen, and from fanatical Christians to bedridden mothers who can't die soon enough for their loved ones ...