After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.
When Karl, a young monk, comes to Bolzano after a robbery, he only reminisces about the events of the previous night. Ambitious journalist Chiara, sensing a new story, and Erich, the commissioner investigating the case, meet in the hospital room. What initially looks like a simple case turns out to be increasingly a secret network full of intrigues and criminal machinations that draws its circles into the highest social classes in South Tyrol.
In a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the dwarves, who is a great plant lover. But things spiral out of control when he steals his magical power belt to win a jousting tournament.
