This is the story of Nils Jeschke and his friends Evelin, Ralf, Johnny, and Michael. It all begins on a Friday afternoon when a strange woman moves into the house across from Evelin's, which has been vacant for years. No one could have imagined the dark secret this woman carries within her, not even in their wildest dreams. Nor could anyone have imagined the mystical powers of the book that Evelin steals from this woman. It enables one to open the gates to the afterlife, to rule over the underworld—to bring back the dead. When the teenagers abuse these powers one night, they unleash a catastrophe from which there seems to be no escape...

Twin brothers Jimmy and Timmi were separated as children after a tragic accident, leading Jimmy into a life of crime as a contract killer while Timmi grew up in an orphanage as a forklift driver. Years later, Jimmy tries to leave his past behind by opening a brothel, the Fast Fack House, with a friend he met in prison. Their success threatens a powerful rival madam, Lydia Rosenthal, who sends her gang, the Bonebreakers, after them. In a case of mistaken identity, Timmi is kidnapped, forcing the estranged brothers to reunite and confront Lydia’s violent empire together.