Herold Plassek sincerely considered himself a failure: the work was uninteresting, there was no family, but he had more than enough complexes. He would have been glad to change something, but he understood the pointlessness of these attempts. And then His Majesty chance intervened. The former lover surprised Herold with the news that he has a fourteen-year-old son, Manuel, and he will have to spend some time with the boy - after all, it is his duty. From that moment on, Herold’s life literally turned upside down: Manuel seemed to attract good luck for his father. There was also a detective story, in the investigation of which Manuel provided invaluable assistance to his father.