Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981.

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young people have long since come to an agreement.

A drama that illustrates a few days at a busy Hamburg police station.