Cat and mouse game with a duck - based on a true story: It is one of the most spectacular and longest extortion cases in German criminal history. At the beginning of the 90s, department store blackmailer Arno Funke was up to mischief under the pseudonym "Scrooge". He plants bombs, blackmails department stores, fools the police, employs the media and people. And yet: The public sympathizes with the blackmailer, who keeps the country in suspense with his extraordinary money transfers and clever inventions.