A car crashes into a river and two bodies are found in the car. But mortician Lisa Taubenbaum suspects that there was a third person in the car. The car belongs to Mario, who was with the two deceased shortly before and has now disappeared. Lisa also has a personal interest in the case, as she used to date Mario when she was at school.

The story is a funny love story between Anna Bremer, the Bundeskanzlerin of Germany and Guy Dupont, the President of France.

The story of an unlikely friendship which leads an unemployed and xenophobic German to teach a young African immigrant how to ice skate.