Andreas Kramer wants to save his parents' carpentry business from ruin. His brother Jojo persuades him to join a shady shareholders' club. Andreas does indeed make some money. But shortly afterwards Jojo disappears and the club boss is found murdered. Andreas is suspected of the crime.
Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself in a strange place where, after completing an intensive course on the latest technologies of modern society, he will have to be adopted by families who request it.
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be.
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.