Ingrid Noll's novel "The Crow" is a family melodrama about a midlife crisis. Poor Paul is confused between his wife and his mistress and considers himself a failure. The player Achim, although he has a reputation as a smart girl, a family favorite and the complete opposite of Paul, is also not far from him. But who drowned the honest German burgher Helena, who became rich after the death of her husband, in her own bathtub? And how will the knot of two brothers and two girlfriends be untied?