Vijf moedige kinderen ontpoppen zich als ware detectives en vechten tegen misdaad en onrecht.

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal.

The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters.

With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

Ermittlungen aus der Speicherstadt Hamburg: Die Pfefferkörner lösen jeden Fall!

I Grani di pepe sono un gruppo di amici, generalmente cinque, che si diverte a indagare e risolvere casi criminali, ficcandosi spesso nei guai. Il loro quartier generale è un magazzino di spezie nella Speicherstadt di Amburgo e le indagini che intraprendono sono di tutti i tipi: esse svariano infatti da episodi di bullismo e violenza all'interno della loro scuola a casi di traffico internazionale di animali protetti o sostanze stupefacenti, da casi di spionaggio industriale o di furto di oggetti di valore fino ad arrivare a problemi sociali legati a episodi di razzismo e omofobia.

Il nome del gruppo e della serie deriva sia dal luogo che i piccoli detective utilizzano come base per le loro indagini, che, soprattutto, dal soprannome con cui venivano storicamente chiamati i mercanti provenienti da Amburgo, ossia Pfeffersäcke (sacchi di pepe).