Erich Sommer

After a car accident, Pastor Peter Aebi (60) is in a persistent vegetative state. His dependent and unhappy wife Katharina (56) and his three adult children Eddi, Silvia, and Johannes must decide whether to let their husband and father live or—as he himself requested in his living will—let him die. Just then, Katharina rediscovers her zest for life thanks to the influence of a burglar who has been caught. And the neighbors suddenly believe that the coma patient is performing minor and major miracles.

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.