Just before Christmas 1987, three masked men kidnap the children of drugstore king Anton Schlecker and demand 9.6 million deutschmarks for their release – the highest ever ransom in the history of the Federal Republic. The crime is not solved until eleven years later. The public is astonished: the three offenders are of retirement age and had committed many serious crimes behind the mantle of respectability. The film tells the story of a spectacular murder case and a (nearly) perfect camouflage.