Singer-songwriter Mat’s relatively normal life implodes when his depression takes the form of Monika, a woman that only he can see and hear – and whose sole purpose is to make his reality worse.

Controversial Economics and Environment Minister Richard Bauer suffers a fatal seizure in front of bodyguard Helen Schilling during a public appearance. As it turns out, he did not die of natural causes. In the course of the investigation, Helen becomes embroiled in a highly explosive conspiracy, behind which a war for the supremacy of future genetic research and its ethical boundaries opens up.