在这部连环交易剧情/悬疑片中,彼得索玛是一位总统竞选候选人，在一次竞选活动回家的路上，彼得索玛被绑架了。绑匪要赎金交换索玛，并让索玛的部下墨尔去送赎金，可是第一次交易失败了，绑匪要割下索玛的耳朵给索玛夫人一个警告。索玛说服绑匪，并恳请绑匪让别人来送赎金。为了救出自己的丈夫，索玛夫人四处奔走，甚至跟曾经的军火商交易。最终索玛先生获救，索玛夫人却决定带着孩子离开。
Peter Sommer is the candidate of his party for the chancellor position. And with two more weeks to go until the elections the demographs tell that there is nothing to stop him from winning. But on the way home from one of the election events, his car breaks down. Men with covered faces kidnap Sommer in the presence of his staff including his wife and daughter. They want ten million Deutschmarks. The first handing over by the party leader and friend Moll fails. The rest of the story is divided into three parts: Sommer's, his wife's and Moll's view. Gathering information about and recalling the past, all develop different theories about what really is planned.
