It all begins with a favour to a friend. Kayankaya's and Slibulsky's sole intention is to help restaurant owner Romario to get rid of two thugs who are blackmailing him for protection money. Then, suddenly, two strange, white-powdered bodies are found in Romarios's restaurant. Kayankaya cannot stop thinking about the bodies. He embarks on a search for their identity – and finds himself the victim of a search. By a Mafia gang about whose origins and leader no-one is sure. The only certain thing is that it is the most brutal and uncompromising group of gangsters ever known to have operated in the Frankfurt red-light district. ›Kismet‹ is about organised crime and war profiteers, about the stupidity of nationalism and the madness of the war in Yugoslavia, about »home« in the best and worst senses of the word. And about the longing for a great love. An unusual and rousing story, with precise, colourful milieu descriptions, breath-taking dialogue, fantastic wit: Jakob Arjouni at his best.