Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Sven is a twelve year old pocket-picker and works for Jens, boss of his gang in school. Teacher Vera Loewe becomes one of his victims. When she realizes that he's one of the pupils in her new class, she confronts him and wants to help, even against his will.