While a shipping accident causes a massive environmental disaster and news about the effects of the plastic crisis keeps the world in suspense, a child is fighting for her life at Hamburg University Hospital. Little Zoe cannot break down the microplastics in her blood, and a malignant carcinoma is growing in her liver. She will die from the plastic.
Zoe’s aunt Melissa is a journalist, currently deep in her research on Cyaclean, a company that wants to solve the global plastic problem with a groundbreaking innovation—their approach is impressive. And Melissa is making contacts that give her hope: maybe there is one last chance to save her niece.
But then Zoe disappears. While tons of colorful plastic particles wash up on Mediterranean beaches and the German foreign intelligence service, BND, is on the trail of sinister machinations of international proportions, Melissa must risk everything to find the child. Because Zoe’s time is running out…