Suddenly, the two-year-old Paulina is no longer in her bed, and everything points to an abduction. But the kidnapper doesn't answer. He left only a doll to his mother. And for Chief Inspector Martin Brühl begins a sleepless nightmare that he had to live through years before.

With a kidnapping case, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game in the context of illegal car racing begins for the Berlin commissioner Martin Brühl. 19-year-old Tim Jatzkowski does not come home. First of all, that's nothing to worry about. But then his father, the luxury car dealer Heiner Jatzkowski, receives a ransom demand.

A four-year-old boy disappears without a trace from the playground in a high-rise complex in the evening. The first investigations are in vain. Time is running out for investigator Martin Brühl. You know: the longer the search lasts, the lower the chance of success. Martin Brühl takes care of the dissolved mother Dina Ritter. She had only let her son out of her sight for a moment. The investigation takes a sudden turn when Dina's older brother Tobias Ritter appears at the crime scene.

Der Kommissar und die Angst