Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present.

Albrecht Schuch, Friedrich Mücke, Anne Ratte-Polle, Ina Geraldine Guy, Alina Tomnikov, Daniel Sträßer