Harald Hauser is suddenly taken ill and misses his plane. As he watches the flight take off without him he knows he s missed the last chance to save his doomed logistics company in Berlin from going under. But on seeing the plane explode in mid air he realises he s experienced a lucky escape, a twist of fate. Now begins Harald s new life, a second life, as a dead man. Harald rushes to tell his wife Sylvie and partner William of his plan to cash in and share out the insurance money only to discover he s been the victim of a cruel betrayal. Harald s schemes of ultimate revenge spiral out of control in Munich and Berlin. Deprived of an identity and a past, Harald s second life rapidly goes off the rails...