 The German police officer Jo Hoffman is lured into a trap during a police raid on a ship in Barcelona -- all his colleagues are shot, the cocaine is gone. Now Hoffman is wanted for murder, he flees to Mallorca. There he meets Ines and her husband Vincent, who s bound to a wheelchair. Ines offers Jo shelter, if he helps her to renovate their villa. Vincent watches them jealously. When he learns that Jo s searched by the police, he wants Ines to kick him out - but she d rather help him to prove his innocence.