American investment fund buys Austrian companies, but also takes over politics in Vienna. Money still makes the world go round.

The blind ex-commissioner Alexander Haller will never forget May 12, 2017. It is the day he lost his fiancée Kara and his eyesight in a bomb attack. When a mysterious note appears on a murder victim with exactly this date, his past catches up with him.

It was her voice that made him want to stay. Only first he has to win everyone’s vote. Downvoted by the community a young man learns how to play by the rules of a bizarr jazz club, lobby to the top and all for love and glory. Yet can one persevere in society without losing one's soul?