A criminal investigator who is afraid of crime scenes is as ludicrous as an Olympic swimmer who is afraid of water. But sometimes fate plays the craziest pranks, and so the LKA officer Robert from Hanover actually suffers from a phobia that makes it impossible for him to pursue fugitive crooks or even to enter a crime scene. This handicap is a thorn in the side of his superior, the sarcastic macho Horst Hoff. At every opportunity he makes fun of Robert and advises him to quit. Of course, that is out of the question. In his old age, those in their mid-fifties would prefer to be trained as a