For the Taking

Experimental film about a TV channel surfer who's trying to simultaneously follow three seemingly separate stories about the murder of a young couple, medieval ambassadors discussing a crisis and two secret agents in hot pursuit.

Plumard Gertrude, the patron of the Italian mafia-Quebec was murdered in his house. 3 years later, the son of Gertrude, Roger tries to find her killer with his cousin Edward, but they discover that there is another recipient of the legacy of Mrs. Gertrude, Edward and Roger starts looking for the mysterious heir to this legacy.

Jason Marks' day starts off with a bang when running late for an important job interview, he crashes into the back of a mobster's car. This clean cut, every-day-joe's situation goes from bad to worse as he's conned into doing one favor after another for gangster Johnny Capriani, getting thrown into the middle of a mob war.

Bad Tölz in 1988 - Commissioner Walter Degenhardt (Adnan Erten) is returning from a trip with his lover Patrizia Lehmann (Katharina Abt) when a detonation shakes the air. As the investigation will later show, it is about the explosion of a letter bomb - addressed to the owner of the Pension Freiheit. Degenhardt and his colleague Rio Hartmann (Luky Zappatta) take on the tricky case. But then two officials from the BND suddenly took over the investigation. A little later Patrizia Lehmann is found dead. And Degenhardt is firmly convinced that his lover, with whom he wanted to start a new life because of his desolate marriage, was murdered. Now there is no stopping the two commissioners, who could not be more different. They begin to research on their own and thus track down a gang of people smugglers and the Stasi. With the help of a Franciscan priest and the shrewd policeman Stevie, they just manage to prevent another murder and hunt down the two Stasi agents.