Inspektor Barbarotti - Mensch ohne Hund

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Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp. His parents, the ossified Patriarch Karl-Erik and his frustrated wife Rosemarie, are so ashamed that they want to emigrate to Spain. Walter's nephew Henrik, on the other hand, was seen as a model boy, but he too is as if swallowed by the earth. Barbarotti, who as a single father takes care of his daughter Sara, has his own investigation methods. The staunch atheist speaks secretly to God, whose existence he is putting to the test. If his requests are heard, there are plus points, which the inspector enters in his notebook - otherwise there are minus points. When he meets the attractive midwife Marianne, heaven seems to have weighed in at least this time. Only in the difficult case, Barbarotti has been standing still for months - despite the support of his colleague Eva Backman, who actually took vacation to save her marriage. By pure chance, Walter's body is discovered - in the freezer of the mentally disturbed Jane Almgren. But there is still no trace of Henrik. When his younger brother Kristoffer receives the decisive tip, Barbarotti enters a life-and-death race.