Don Sallust ministar je španjolskog kralja. To je biće neiskreno, licemjerno i pohlepno, ono koje samo ubire porez i gleda svoju korist. Mrze ga ljudi koje ugnjetava. Optužuje ga kraljica, lijepa princeza Bavarska, zbog vanbračnog djeteta jednoj od njenih djeveruša te je lišen dužnosti i naređeno mu je da se povuče u samostan. Odlučio se osvetiti, dolazi u kontakt s nećakom koji je zaveo Cezara...

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fulfilled will come true at the end of the story. Beautiful Regine will beg for Rico’s love. Until then several inhabitants of the town will die an unnatural death...