Synopsis

Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff and his son Max are looking for the missing lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for her agricultural group Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is undesirable and that she is putting herself and the boy in danger. Rommy's former boss and friend Karin Berger now wants to find out with her where Lilian took Holthaus and why he disappeared. What scandal lies behind Norgreen Life's crop protection product Pancosal? After all, it is Lilian's biggest opponent, the Internet giant Larry Jordan, who leads the two journalists on the right track: In the Congo, the Berlin doctor Dr. Schwarz developed a drug against a form of liver cancer that is increasingly occurring in connection with the pesticide Pancosal. Larry Jordan and Lilian Norgren are fighting bitterly for Schwarz's patent, which promises a once-in-a-century business. Rommy sets off for the Congo, where the drug is being tested, while Karin Berger and Max find a trail that leads to Holthaus.