Jean Berlinger (Sascha Hehn) is a good-looking man with a passion for art. In his designer suit, oozing style and elegance, he makes an excellent living as a master thief, leaving museums and collections of their most valuable works. He uses the money paid for these works of art by the people who commissioned him to support old people's homes and shelters for the homeless, although he does also give some pictures to his beloved mother (Helga Göring), whose main concern is that Jean still hasn't found the right woman yet. Inspector Leibniz (Walter Kreye) has been trying to track down Berlinger for many years -- unfortunately, without any success.
While Berlinger is preparing his next robbery he meets the beautiful Julia (Christina Plate), a young woman who wear ecologically sound outfits and doesn't appear to be his type at all. An easy conquest, he thinks. Julia runs a kindergarten threatened with closure which is located next to the Egyptian Museum where Berlinger plans to remove the world-famous Nefertiti. But curiously enough, Berlinger can't start thinking about the beautiful Julia and her concerns about the kindergarten. And when he discovers that the bust his client is so eagerly waiting for isn't in the museum at all any more, he has to come up with something …