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