On the night of the 11th of July, two guardsmen from the Serbian elite unit are making their rounds in the Topcider military camp. The next morning, they are found dead. The military court issues an official report claiming that they were the victims of a dishonourable ritual suicide, and the investigation is promptly closed. Lawyer Sinisa Stojkovic is commissioned by the parents of the dead guardsmen to launch a private investigation. He asks his old friend, Milena Lukin, a specialist in international law, for her assistance. But her investigations start to irritate certain individuals, and her life ends up in grave danger. A dreadful suspicion begins to build: it seems that the guards saw something they shouldn't have seen. Could it have had something to do with the anniversary of the worst massacre in European history since World War II?

Good times, bad times! Up in shining lights or up for the chop, record viewing figures or rock-bottom ratings: nerves are ragged among members of the daily soap's television crew.Tragedy galore in front of the camera, but even more looms behind the lens. Tomas Prinz invents a new hairstyle for his client, Tina Schmale, who has recently taken on the television soap opera ›That's Life‹.The producer has stepped in to rescue the series from plunging ratings. She has an idea: what she needs is for her new lead to be a publicity magnet. But where do you find a star willing to lend her face to a daily soap? The hairdresser knows the very person: Charlotte Auerbach, an icon in her youth in the 70s and just back from California, would be up for it. And, as her personal stylist, he finds himself in the very heart of a team of actors, directors, writers, cameramen and set designers who churn out, conveyor belt-fashion, twenty-five minutes worth of evening entertainment every day. Intrigue and petty jealousies have their place, too, of course. There's a murder to boot. And it's not in the script.