Hans celebrates his impending promotion with pay rise first in the precinct, then with his daughter Nelly, insisting to finance her studies, so she resigns her waitress job. Walking home after a celebratory dinner, they are attacked by two young men, when of which grabs panicking and Nelly. Overprotective, tipsy Hans not only scares away the assailant, but beats his mate, who tried only to drag them apart, unconscious into hospital. Hans's colleagues start both a search for the other youngster and a formal investigation of his conduct, which looks nasty after Nelly's former boss's accidental witness observations describe him disproportionately violent. The victim, Jannik Lennarz, is a promising football (soccer) player and seems to have lasting breathing trouble. Nelly's mother Marion hails 'hero' Hans, the girls accidentally spots and follows the escaped thug, which gets her into acute problems, but Tariq steps in timely to save her and Hans, who ignored his suspension to go after mug shot-identified Marcel Greifswald, from themselves.
—KGF Vissers