Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp. His parents, the ossified Patriarch Karl-Erik and his frustrated wife Rosemarie, are so ashamed that they want to emigrate to Spain. Walter's nephew Henrik, on the other hand, was seen as a model boy, but he too is as if swallowed by the earth. Barbarotti, who as a single father takes care of his daughter Sara, has his own investigation methods. The staunch atheist speaks secretly to God, whose existence he is putting to the test. If his requests are heard, there are plus points, which the inspector enters in his notebook - otherwise there are minus points.