Karl Ravinski, CEO of a flourishing design kitchens firm, celebrates his birthday with family, mist of which lives on his grand country estate. Then Karl travels to Mallorca, to negotiate a Spanish takeover with slick Freiberg, who keeps him distracted with his luxury villa, yacht and foxy executive assistant Cora Talheim. She however betrays her boss by revealing she not an MBA but a call-girl, and the deal is rotten. Back in Germany, Karl stubbornly overrules Cora's protestations she wants neither a reward nor a relationship. They end up married, greeted by the family with mixed feelings, which culminate after Karl dies during love-making, having put Cora in his will.